Technical Lead, Python

Key Responsibilities:

• Independently guide the technical direction and implementation by the whole team within defined architecture in all stages from conceptualization to deployment.
• Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, and customer impact to ensure the development of the right solution, with client success at the forefront.
• Create and lead the team's technical documentation and repository management practices, including tasks such as creating branches, pull requests, merges, etc.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to provide necessary oversight of architecture and dependencies influencing product strategy and direction.
• Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and addressing complex bug fixes with a focus on security, performance, and reliability.Be an active leader in the Engineering Practice community, mentoring Senior Engineers and others through Communities of Practice (CoPs) or on project teams, supporting the growth of technical capabilities.

Minimum Qualifications

• A minimum of 7+ years of experience/expertise working as a Python Engineer, with proficiency in the specified technologies.
• Python and Python frameworks
• Strong expertise in FastAPI, SQLModel/SQLAlchemy, and Pydantic
• Multithreaded/Multiprocessing System
• Hands-on experience with Docker and writing tests using Pytest
• Proficient with package managers like Poetry or UV
• Familiarity with big data technologies (e.g., Apache Kafka, Elasticsearch).
• AWS
• Azure
• Docker
• MLOps (Good to Have)
• Bonus: Knowledge of async programming, experience with gen-ai packages like langchain, openai, llamaindex, etc and cloud deployment
• High level of English proficiency required to interact with a globally-based development team.
• Experience leading Agile software development methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience following and adapting high-level architecture to project and client needs.
• Ability to verify/validate architecture implementations and influence overall architecture beyond the team.
• High-level design proficiency following UML / C4 / ArchiMate.
• Experience in effectively working collaboratively among relevant information stakeholders to create and implement well-tested, scalable, secure, and performant enterprise-level systems that ultimately deliver the client’s desired business outcome.
• Demonstrated initiative in mentoring other engineers and decision-makers throughout the organization.
• Very good knowledge of architectural styles and design patterns, SOLID principles and OWASP.

Additional Experience Desired:

• Ability to set technical strategy and direct implementation across several teams/whole product.
• Ability to refine and clarify technical details (including definition of done) based on internal or external PO for User Stories and task assignments.
• Ability to provide technical orchestration among the overall tasks.
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of building Cloud Native applications.