Python API Developer

Job Details

• Job: Python API Developers
• Location: Irving (Dallas, TX) Hybrid
• Term: 12+ month Contract

Required Skills

• 3+ years of python server development using Django, Flask, Bottle or other python frameworks
• 5+ years' industry experience
• Ability to write unit-tested and maintainable code
• Expertise working with and building RESTful APIs
• Expert in Python
• Knowledgeable in cloud platforms (preferable AWS: both traditional EC2 and serverless Lambda), micro-services architecture, CI/CD solutions (including Docker), DevOps principles, message queue systems, and background task management
• Experience with API security frameworks, token management and user access control including OAuth, JWT, etc
• Solid foundation and understanding of relational and NoSQL database principles
• Well organized with a bias for action with minimal direction
• Understanding of OOP and Data Structures and know when to apply them in daily coding scenarios
• Message queues (RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, etc)
• Background task processing (Celery, etc)
• Experience configuring container like systems (Vagrant, Docker, etc)
• Basic understanding of modern web components (HTML/CSS/JS)