Lead Python Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Lead Python Engineer to design, build, and continuously enhance complex enterprise-grade applications, data-intensive services, and automation platforms. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on delivering robust, secure, and high-performance Python systems that operate reliably within distributed and mission-critical production environments.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with product, data, and infrastructure teams to translate ambiguous business problems into well-engineered technical solutions.
• Think beyond surface-level fixes, identify root causes of complex issues, and proactively raise the engineering bar across the team.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects in dynamic, fast-changing environments while keeping stakeholders well informed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Five or more years of applied Python development experience in enterprise-grade environments.
• Strong experience building and maintaining large-scale production applications with significant uptime and reliability requirements.
• Hands-on experience with relational database systems such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Sybase, including query tuning and schema design.
• Strong understanding of the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements, design, build, test, release, and ongoing support.
• Proven hands-on experience across system design, application development, automated testing, and operational support.
• Strong working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and computational efficiency, with the ability to make sound design trade-offs.
• Demonstrated experience debugging and maintaining complex, enterprise-level applications in production.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, application resiliency patterns, and secure coding standards.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience collaborating with both technical and business teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong shell scripting skills in UNIX/Linux environments and comfort working with command-line tooling.
• Solid grounding in mathematical and statistical concepts and the ability to translate them into code.
• Hands-on experience with the Python data and ML ecosystem, including NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch.
• Working exposure to AWS cloud services and cloud-native storage technologies such as S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and Glue.

Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range: $75,000–$95,000 Annually
Experience Required: 6+ years
Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.