Python Engineer (FastAPI, AWS)

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Software Engineer (Python/FastAPI) AI Applications

Role: Build, operate, and scale Python APIs and backend services that integrate AI capabilities (e.g., Google Gemini via Vertex AI) to power internal and external applications. You will not build models; you ll productionize integrations, orchestrations, and data flows around them.

What You ll Do

Design, implement, and document FastAPI services and SDKs for AI features.
Integrate third-party AI providers (Gemini, Bedrock, OpenAI) with secure, observable patterns.
Build event-driven and synchronous backends (REST/webhooks/queues) with robust error handling.
Optimize latency, throughput, and cost; add caching, rate limiting, and retries/circuit breakers.
Ship high-quality code with tests, CI/CD.
Instrument services (structured logs, metrics, traces) and own production readiness/runbooks.
Collaborate with product, data, and ML teams to translate requirements into APIs and workflows.
Uphold security, privacy, and compliance (secrets, OAuth/OIDC, PII handling).

Required Qualifications

4 8+ years software engineering (mid senior); strong Python 3.x.
Production FastAPI (or Flask) delivering secure, versioned APIs.
Cloud experience on Google Cloud Platform or AWS (e.g., Cloud Run/GKE/Pub/Sub or Lambda/EKS/API Gateway/SQS).
Datastores: Postgres/MySQL and one of Redis/ElastiCache/Memorystore; migrations and schema design.
CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Cloud Build), containerization (Docker), IaC familiarity (Terraform helpful).
Testing culture (unit/integration/contract), API specs (OpenAPI), and observability.
Strong grasp of resiliency patterns and performance tuning in distributed systems.

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