Python API Architect

Position Python Fast API Architect

Experience: 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years at Principal Architect / Senior IC level

# of positions: 2

Location: New York OR New Jersey Remote (but travel when required)

Backend Engineer Qualifications

Must Have

Engineering Experience

• 5+ years building and operating production backend systems.
• Owns features end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, support.
• Strong proficiency in Python.

API & Service Design

• Builds production APIs with a modern web framework (FastAPI or similar).
• Comfortable with asynchronous programming and async/sync trade-offs.
• Designs clear request/response contracts and validates inputs.

Databases, Data Modeling, and Data Processing

• Strong relational fundamentals: schema design, indexing, query performance.
• Hands-on with an ORM (SQLAlchemy or equivalent) and writing non-trivial SQL.
• Evolves production schemas safely via versioned migrations.
• Builds data pipelines: ingest $B"*(J validate $B"*(J transform $B"*(J persist $B"*(J export.
• Works fluently with tabular data (Excel, Parquet, CSV).

Cloud & Delivery

• Deploying and operating services on a cloud provider (Azure strongly preferred).
• Containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.

Nontechnical

• Can clearly explain trade-offs to engineers and non-engineers.
• Operates independently, but with frequent communication. Asks clarifying questions early and keeps team informed on progress and blockers.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and drives problems to resolution.

Nice to Have

• Frontend awareness (React/TypeScript) sufficient to collaborate on API contracts. Front end / full stack development experience (can build features, do code reviews) is a plus.
• Scheduled / long-running background jobs in multi-instance deployments (locking, idempotency, retries).
• Finance / FP&A / portfolio analytics domain experience.