Lead Python Engineer [FastAPI]

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of team's solutions from requirements analysis to deployment and production support, ensuring quality, performance, and reliability
• Promote a culture of ownership where team members take pride in their work quality, while mentoring and guiding a team of 5-7 Python developers
• Distribute workloads effectively to maintain balanced team capacity and alignment with delivery goals
• Define, uphold, and enforce platform standards and best practices for the Digital Health Platform, including microservices architecture and API contract design
• Advocate API-first development using OpenAPI specs as the source of truth and ensuring implementation with auto-generated models
• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure quality, consistency, and compliance with established standards
• Remain updated on industry trends, evaluate emerging technologies, and proactively manage technical risks and dependencies
• Collaborate with the team to clarify requirements, break them into actionable tasks, and ensure understanding from inception
• Contribute hands-on to the design and implementation of scalable microservices and RESTful APIs using Python 3.12 and FastAPI
• Lead and oversee Azure deployments using Kubernetes and Docker integrated with CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions

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