Python Developer

Job title: Python Fullstack Lead

Location: Chennai

Mode of work: 5 days WFO

Notice Period: Immediate to 15days only

Summary:

• Minimum 12+ years of IT experience, with strong expertise in Python, RESTfulAPIs, and RDBMS.
• Proven leadership capability with excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Ability to take end-to-end responsibility for technical design, delivery, and quality.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead and work closely with the development team to deliver commitments smoothly and predictably.
• Perform technical impact analysis and contribute to accurate effort estimation and planning.
• Own the technical design and solutioning for backend systems and integrations.
• Actively promote and adopt AI-aided development and optimization practices (code generation, reviews, test creation, performance tuning).
• Proactively identify and address:

Security vulnerabilities

Code quality issues

Engineering metrics (coverage, performance, reliability)

• Conduct code reviews, guide refactoring discussions, and ensure high-quality deliverables across teams.
• Perform feasibility studies to ensure solutions leverage modern and relevant technologies.
• Develop tools, services, and applications by producing clean, efficient, and maintainable Python code.
• Collaborate across domains and delivery teams to ensure architectural alignment and technical consistency.
• Take initiative in continuous improvement of engineering practices, frameworks, and team productivity.
• Demonstrate the ability to learn new technologies quickly and stay up to date with in

Required Skills:

• 12+ years of overall IT experience, with 5+ years focused on designing and developing backend/web applications using Python.
• Strong expertise in Python backend frameworks such as Django, Flask, FastAPI, or equivalent.
• Solid experience in API-first design, implementation, and optimization of RESTful services.
• Deep understanding of middleware architecture, backend services, and system integration.
• Hands-on experience in database schema design, implementation, and tuning using RDBMS such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Strong proficiency in: Writing complex SQL queries
• Stored procedures, indexes, and performance optimization
• Transaction handling and data consistency
• Experience with ORM frameworks (Django ORM, SQL Alchemy, etc.) and awareness of their performance trade-offs.
• Solid coding skills with the ability to: Drive large-scale refactoring initiatives
• Improve coding standards, testing discipline, and maintainability across large codebases
• Experience building cloud-native services, with strong understanding of:

Scalability

Performance

Security