Python Engineer - GP

Mid Backend Python Engineer

Responsibilities

• Participate in setting and maintaining team coding standards.
• Conduct and engage in peer code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.
• Manage and prioritize individual tasks effectively, balancing feature development with technical debt resolution and system stability.
• Act as a technical contributor in discussions with stakeholders, product managers, and cross-functional teams.
• Clarify technical requirements and provide input during planning sessions.
• Address ambiguous technical issues with structured problem-solving approaches.
• Escalate complex challenges appropriately to senior engineers or technical leads.
• Proactively contribute ideas to improve codebase quality, system performance, and team workflows.

Technical Requirements

• Proficient in Python, with experience in writing production-quality code.
• Solid deep understanding and experience building, maintaining, and interacting with web services, i.e. REST APIs.
• Experience with web scraping, i.e. retrieving and interacting with sites programmatically with headless browser automation tools (e.g., Browserless, Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium).
• Experience working with multiple data providers and handling API differences and inconsistencies.
• Familiarity with caching services like Redis, KV stores
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana).
• Familiarity with asynchronous programming, i.e. async/await, threads.
• Familiarity with unit testing with Pytest

Nice to have

• Familiarity with cloud and virtualized environments such as lambdas, functions, workers, ec2 instances, docker containers, and kubernetes objects.
• Familiarity interacting with GraphQL api’s, writing queries
• Familiarity with ElasticSearch
• Familiarity with RabitMQ queue systems
• Familiarity with Proxy pass requests
• Proficient in web scraping, having successfully completed multiple projects that involved extracting and manipulating data from websites.
• Strong proficiency with Javascript, Frontend development, DOM Manipulation, and frameworks like React.
• Proficient in reverse engineering web services: This includes analyzing and understanding the inner workings of web-based APIs and applications, often without access to source code or documentation.
• This skill might involve using tools like network sniffers, decompilers, and debuggers to intercept and examine network traffic, dissect code, and identify vulnerabilities or potential areas for improvement.