Description

Job Description

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Python API Developer with 8–10 years of experience in building scalable backend services and RESTful APIs, with strong hands-on expertise in AWS cloud services. The ideal candidate will design, develop, and optimize microservices and cloud-native applications while ensuring security, performance, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

API & Backend Development

• Design, develop, and maintain RESTful/GraphQL APIs using Python frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, Django REST Framework).
• Build scalable, modular backend services with proper API versioning, authentication, and authorization.
• Implement secure API access using OAuth2, JWT, IAM roles, and API Gateway integrations.

AWS Cloud Engineering

• Architect, deploy, and manage services on AWS, including:
  • AWS Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, EKS, EC2
  • S3, CloudFront, SNS/SQS, EventBridge
  • RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Secrets Manager, SSM
• Build and optimize cloud-native microservices leveraging AWS-managed tools.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and AWS distributed tracing.
• Apply AWS best practices for security, cost optimization, and scalability.

Architecture & Solution Design

• Translate business and functional requirements into API specifications and backend architecture.
• Work with microservices, event-driven designs, and cloud-native patterns.
• Ensure performance tuning, caching, and fault-tolerant design principles.

Data & Database Management

• Design schemas, optimize queries, and implement data pipelines on RDS/PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, or other databases.
• Integrate internal and external APIs and manage data transformations.

DevOps, CI/CD & Automation

• Build CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Containerize services using Docker, and deploy to AWS ECS/EKS.
• Work with IaC tools (preferred: Terraform or AWS CloudFormation).

Quality, Testing & Documentation

• Write unit, integration, and performance tests (pytest, unittest).
• Ensure API reliability, observability, and adherence to SLAs.
• Maintain API documentation using OpenAPI/Swagger.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Mentor junior engineers and drive coding best practices.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and sprint planning.
• Work cross-functionally with product, DevOps, and infrastructure teams.

Required Skills & Experience

Core Technical Skills

• 8–10 years of hands-on experience in Python and API development.
• Strong experience with AWS services, especially serverless and container-based workloads.
• Expertise in frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django REST Framework.
• Proficiency with SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB/MongoDB).
• Strong understanding of asynchronous programming (asyncio), multi-threading, and performance tuning.
• Experience building secure and scalable microservices.

AWS-Specific Skills

• Hands-on expertise with:
  • API Gateway, Lambda, ECS/EKS, EC2
  • S3, CloudFront, SNS/SQS, EventBridge
  • RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache
  • IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager
  • CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail
• Understanding of AWS networking fundamentals (VPC, subnets, security groups, load balancers).

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and ownership mindset.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in agile teams.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with AWS CDK or advanced Terraform modules.
• Exposure to API Gateway custom authorizers, WAF, Cognito.
• Experience in high-scale, low-latency distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or streaming platforms

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate