Python Developer

Role: Python Developer

Location: Remote - LATAM

Mode: Contract

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services for a cloud-based mental health platform, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Build and maintain REST APIs and integrations with third-party healthcare, insurance, and external service providers.
• Implement and maintain business logic for synchronized data processing, ensuring data consistency, accuracy, and reliability across distributed systems.
• Develop scalable microservices using Python and modern backend frameworks (FastAPI and/or Flask).
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, backend engineers, product teams, and infrastructure specialists to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, promote engineering best practices, and contribute to continuous improvement of the codebase.
• Support and enhance cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), working with Kubernetes-based environments.
• Contribute to infrastructure automation using Terraform and support CI/CD pipelines to improve development and deployment workflows.
• Troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues, ensuring platform stability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Partner with infrastructure engineers to improve platform scalability, observability, and operational efficiency.

Must Have Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Python Software Engineer.
• Strong proficiency in Python 3.9+.
• Hands-on experience with FastAPI or Flask (experience with both is highly preferred).
• Proven experience designing and implementing REST APIs and integrating with third-party APIs.
• Experience building distributed systems and microservices, including gRPC and asynchronous messaging (Pub/Sub or similar).
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, including schema design, advanced querying, and performance optimization.
• Solid experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native application development and containerized workloads.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional, distributed teams.
• Good command of spoken and written English.
• Availability for at least 2 hours of overlap with the Pacific Time zone for daily collaboration and handoffs.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Django 4.x.
• Experience with React or modern frontend development.
• Experience with Helm.
• Familiarity with Atlantis.
• Experience working in healthcare, health-tech, or regulated environments.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and production incident response.