Staff Python Engineer – Contract

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Slovenia.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement backend functionalities in Python for large-scale enterprise SaaS platforms.

• Enhance technical quality through testing, continuous integration/deployment, and secure design practices.

• Offer technical direction and architectural insights on backend projects.

• Create data models and pipelines to manage high-volume sensor data streams and time-series events.

• Manage late-arriving data, retention periods, and downstream reclassification processes.

• Oversee a synchronization and reconciliation engine for distributed edge clients and cloud environments.

• Execute incremental updates, retroactive resynchronization, and atomic merging of simultaneous edits.

• Develop integrations with customer enterprise systems while ensuring consistency amid partial failures and ambiguous record matching.

• Architect solutions for concurrency, interval-based data handling, transactional guarantees, and consistency across asynchronous workers, polling clients, and manual edits.

• Construct configurable, formula-driven systems with secure customer-specific extension points.

• Create fast and reliable APIs tailored for latency-sensitive operational user interfaces.

• Collaborate with teams specializing in cloud, infrastructure, and data science.

• Oversee and enhance data pipelines that supply the analytics platform.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of professional experience in software development.

• Proficiency in Python and Django is essential.

• Experience with large, intricate backend SaaS applications is required.

• Strong capabilities in modeling complex data systems and delivering scalable solutions.

• Practical experience in supporting production code and iterating based on customer feedback.

• Contractors must possess or acquire the legal right to operate as independent contractors in their respective jurisdictions.

• Contractors are responsible for maintaining any necessary registrations, licenses, or business entities as mandated by applicable law.

• Contractors must hold relevant professional indemnity, public liability, or other insurance as required by their jurisdiction.

• Resumes should be submitted in English.

• Familiarity with Celery, RabbitMQ, TimescaleDB/Athena, and a background in manufacturing or industrial technology is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Embrace a remote-first, highly asynchronous engineering culture.

• Experience significant ownership and autonomy in your work.

• Collaborate with seasoned backend, infrastructure, and data engineers.

• Engage in projects involving high-scale industrial data systems utilized by leading global manufacturers.

• Note that no employee benefits, equity awards, paid time off, sick leave, health insurance, or participation in employee benefit programs are offered.