Python Developer

Job in New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA

Listing for: The Value Maximizer

Full Time, Seasonal/Temporary position
Listed on 2026-01-12

Job specializations:

Software Development
Python, Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software, DevOps

Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 80000 - 100000 USD Yearly USD 80000.00 100000.00 YEAR

Location: New York

Position: Python Developer

Location: Fort Mill, SC / NYC, NY

Duration: Full-Time

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Other

Seeking a Senior Python Backend API Engineer with deep hands‑on experience building and operating production‑grade backend APIs. The candidate must demonstrate strong ownership, technical depth, and independent execution capability.

Mandatory Screening Criteria (ALL REQUIRED)
Core Python Backend Expertise

5+ years of hands‑on Python backend development
Designed and implemented REST APIs from scratch
Strong experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django REST Framework
Must be currently writing production Python code

API Design & Security

REST principles: resource modeling, versioning, idempotency
Authentication & authorization: JWT, OAuth2, API keys
Error handling, logging, and observability

Database & Data Handling

Strong experience with Postgre

SQL or MySQL
Schema design, indexing, query optimization
Transactions and data integrity

Engineering Discipline

Clean, maintainable, testable code
Unit and integration testing
Independent debugging of production issues
Refactoring legacy or poorly structured codebases

NICE-TO-HAVE (STRONG ADVANTAGE)

AWS or cloud exposure (EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, IAM)
Docker (required if Kubernetes is mentioned)
Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines
Async Python, background jobs, or message queues

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