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Python Engineer

QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES LLCSanta Clara, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 15, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

Leverage your Python expertise to build scalable backend applications and high-performance APIs in a hybrid environment, offering you excellent growth potential and the chance to refine your problem-solving skills. This role is ideal for mid-senior engineers eager to contribute to impactful technology solutions with a competitive hourly rate. Apply now to join an innovative team!

Quick Overview

Salary
$75/hr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Santa Clara, CA, United States
Posted
18 hours ago
DockerFastAPIMicroservicesSnowflakeGitGitHub ActionsHTTPJenkinsKafkaPythonpytest

Job Description

Summary

Job Title:  Python Engineer

Location:  Santa Clara , CA

Duration:  8 Months 

Bill Rate: $75/hour

Job Type: W-2 Contract

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization:

  • USC
  • GC
  • H-1B
  • OPT-EAD
  • GC-EAD
    Job Description:   
     
    1. Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications and microservices using Core Python, following object-oriented programming principles, clean code practices, and enterprise software development standards.
    2. Develop high-performance RESTful APIs using FastAPI, implementing Pydantic models, request validation, exception handling, HTTP status codes, and asynchronous processing.
    3. Demonstrate strong expertise in Python fundamentals, including decorators, generators, iterators, context managers, exception handling, comprehensions, collections, and memory management.
    4. Implement efficient algorithms using data structures and problem-solving techniques, including dictionaries, sets, lists, hash maps, sliding window algorithms, string manipulation, and time/space complexity optimization.
    5. Design reliable backend workflows for network provisioning, configuration management, and cloud infrastructure automation, integrating with enterprise networking platforms and external services.
    6. Develop robust transaction and error-recovery mechanisms, including retry logic, timeout handling, idempotency, rollback strategies, compensation workflows, and failure recovery across distributed systems.
    7. Integrate Python applications with relational databases, Snowflake, metadata repositories, and messaging systems, ensuring data consistency, transaction integrity, and efficient database operations.
    8. Build scalable, event-driven services using Kafka or similar messaging platforms, implementing correlation IDs, structured logging, event publishing, and distributed workflow monitoring.
    9. Develop comprehensive unit tests, integration tests, and API automation tests using Pytest, including mocking, dependency injection, edge-case validation, and code coverage improvements.
    10. Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or GitHub Actions, with Git, Docker, automated testing, code quality checks, and deployment automation. Collaborate with engineering teams to troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance, and deliver reliable enterprise backend servic.
    Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

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