Senior Software Engineer

Candidates must be within driving distance to Charlotte, NC.

No C2C or Sponsorship is available! (Please do NOT email me if you are an employer.)

TOP SKILLS:

• Extensive experience in microservice development
• Strong database design fundamentals
• Proficiency in modern python
• Terraform for IAC
• Azure DevOps (CI/CD)
• AWS, AWS Lamba
• Mongo DB or Dynamo DB
• Experience with API integrations ESPECIALLY event-based APIs

Required:

• Experience with microservice style development and maintenance.
• Strong fundamentals of database design, including indexes, partitioning, and query optimization for at least one type of database (RDMS, document database, OLAP, or key/value store).
• Ability to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the chosen database and common performance optimization areas.
• Experience with API design and optimization, including database connection pooling, asynchronous operations, data-driven design, and error handling.
• Familiarity with trunk-based development and strong understanding of version control systems, preferably git.
• Strong fundamentals of modern Python (3.10+), including type hinting, class/type systems, efficient iteration, and memory management.
• Familiarity with at least one Python paradigm (Object Oriented, Functional, Imperative).
• Understanding of virtual environment management and familiarity with tools like poetry, pipenv, virtualenv, venv, or conda.
• Familiarity with some IaC provider, preferably Terraform.
• Strong understanding of AWS Lambda, including memory and time limitations, packaging, parallelism configurations, and when to choose alternative services.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and release management (CircleCI, TravisCI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.).
• Understanding of AWS API Gateway and its integration with AWS Lambda.
• Familiarity with bash scripting and/or Linux.