Senior AWS Python Developer - Remote

Job Title: Senior AWS Python Developer Kafka

Location: Remote

Duration: Longterm

Required Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in Python or Java; hands-on experience with both is preferred.
• Strong experience developing AWS-based pipelines and cloud-native applications.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures.
• Proven experience building:
• Metadata-driven pipelines and workflows
• Dynamic business-rule engines
• Configuration-driven applications
• Configurable API and data-integration frameworks
• Template-based code-generation frameworks
• Parameterized and reusable services
• Strong experience designing and optimizing JSON-, YAML-, and XML-based configuration interpreters.
• Strong understanding of configuration schemas, validation, versioning, auditability, backward compatibility, and rollback.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database modelling.
• Experience designing data models for business rules, metadata, configuration versioning, and audit history.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and GitOps practices.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Strong working knowledge of Dynatrace for observability, monitoring, performance analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of Windsurf or similar AI-assisted development tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing high-volume, fault-tolerant, distributed platforms.
• Knowledge of data lineage, schema evolution, data contracts, and data-quality controls.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and deployment tools such as Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, or equivalent technologies.
• Familiarity with design patterns for retry management, dead-letter queues, idempotency, caching, and fault tolerance.
• Experience implementing secure APIs and cloud services using authentication, authorization, encryption, and secrets-management practices.
• AWS Developer, AWS Solutions Architect, Kubernetes, Java, or Python certifications are an advantage.