Lead Software Engineer - Python

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Candidate must live in Columbus, Ohio - 3 days/week hybrid schedule

Our client is revitalizing a flagship SaaS offering, and they're looking for engineers eager to solve complex, real-world problems. Their global platform serves users and institutions alike, preserving and sharing cultural heritage for current and future generations. This is an extraordinary opportunity to do work that matters in a product with complex technical needs.

Challenges include optimizing content delivery speed and scalability for a platform that serves millions of requests a day. Complex metadata management, linked data integrations, and asset processing pipelines await on the backend. Bridging both front and backend are complex search and discovery needs. Delivering on all of these from reliable, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure will be a hurdle, but also an opportunity to innovate, grow, and demonstrate leadership.

Bring your curiosity, your problem-solving, and your drive to build great things in the cloud.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement complex features and systems.
• Provide technical guidance and expertise to the team.
• Participate in architectural discussions and decisions.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure code quality standards
• Mentor junior engineers

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Python: Strong to expert proficiency in Python 3.11+, especially for web-development. Must be familiar with modern python idioms, type hinting, dataclasses, threading constraints and multi-process architecture.
• Django: Strong proficiency with the Django web framework, with an understanding of Django’s architecture, ORM, and templating engines. Familiarity with Django Ninja and Pydantic frameworks strongly preferred. Experience with similar frameworks such as Flask may be suitable.
• API Design: Experience translating product and UI requirements into effective, performant, secure APIs. OpenAPI specification design strongly preferred. Familiarity with OpenAPI specs from Pydantic a plus.
• PostgreSQL: Proficiency with JSON fields, full-text search, and complex constraints. Experienced optimizing queries and interfacing ORM with database tables for high scale, high performance applications.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Deep understanding of database systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Experience integrating AI tools, frameworks, and concepts into the software development process.