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Senior Python Engineer

SCI SOLUTIONS GLOBAL

Plano, TX 75023 • $60.00 to $65.00 / hr • 9/25/2026

Engineering , Information Technology , Professional

Job Description

Job Description

Role: Senior Python Engineer – API Development
Location: Plano, TX- Locals highly preferred
W2 Requirement
Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, or GC EAD preferred

Note: No C2C / Third-Party/1099 profiles

Job Description

We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers with strong expertise in Python, API development, and AWS cloud-native technologies to design, build, and operate scalable backend services.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with microservices, serverless applications, event-driven architectures, and containerized workloads on AWS.

Responsibilities

  • Design cloud-native backend architectures using microservices, serverless, and event-driven patterns.

  • Build Python backend services and REST APIs using FastAPI, Flask, or similar frameworks.

  • Implement API validation, security, error handling, performance, and integration patterns.

  • Develop serverless solutions using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, and Step Functions.

  • Containerize and deploy applications using Docker, ECS/Fargate, and/or EKS/Kubernetes.

  • Implement asynchronous processing using SQS, SNS, and EventBridge.

  • Design data persistence using RDS/Aurora and DynamoDB.

  • Implement caching using ElastiCache/Redis.

  • Provision infrastructure using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.

  • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated testing.

  • Implement monitoring and observability using CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry, or comparable tools.

  • Apply AWS security practices across IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, VPC, and networking.

  • Design highly available, scalable, and disaster-resilient solutions.

  • Troubleshoot production issues and apply SRE/reliability practices.

  • Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best practices.

  • Provide technical leadership and communicate engineering decisions to stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

  • 6+ years of professional software/backend engineering experience.

  • Strong hands-on Python development experience.

  • Experience designing REST APIs and microservices.

  • Strong AWS experience with several of the following:

    • Lambda

    • API Gateway

    • ECS/Fargate

    • EKS/Kubernetes

    • S3

    • EventBridge

    • SQS/SNS

    • RDS/Aurora

    • DynamoDB

    • ElastiCache/Redis

  • Docker and containerized application deployment.

  • Terraform and/or CloudFormation.

  • CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance.

  • AWS IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, VPC, and cloud security.

  • Application monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.

  • Automated testing and software quality practices.

  • Git, code reviews, Agile development, and production support.

  • Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • FastAPI or Flask.

  • Production Kubernetes/EKS experience.

  • AWS Step Functions.

  • Kafka/MSK or Kinesis.

  • OpenTelemetry or AWS X-Ray.

  • SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, incident management, and reliability engineering.

  • Cloud cost optimization / FinOps.

  • High-availability and disaster-recovery architecture.

  • Technical leadership or mentoring experience.