Position: Back-end (Python) Team Lead #8567
Company: Lohika
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

Responsibilities
- Hold the Team Leader role, manage 4+ people cross-functional team
- Take ownership of design and development of all aspects of high-quality client-facing API contract (including versioning, documentation, security, API gateway, and testing, etc.)
- Develop and support client-facing and internal REST APIs for fintech platform microservices project
- Work in close contact with team members and project stakeholders on the client’s side
- Provide system or technical development expertise to the team
- Take part in requirements analysis and provide estimates
- Perform code review of other team members
- Research and evaluate technical options to implement business requirements
- Suggest technical and functional improvements to add value to the product
- Provides encouragement and feedback to team members, oversees team member work for quality and guideline compliance
- Assists management with hiring processes and new team member training

Requirements (required)
Experience with leading a team of 4+ engineers
5+ years of commercial Python development
Strong OOD skills
Experience with API documentation
Experience with Python web stack (Django, Django ORM, Flask, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, or similar)
Experience with PostgreSQL
Experience with Docker
Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies
Upper-intermediate level of English

Requirements (optional)
Experience with Python 3.7+
Experience with asynchronous ORM frameworks
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
Experience with Terraform for cloud infrastructure provisioning
Understanding of CI/CD practices, experience with CircleCI, or similar
Experience with monitoring and alerting practices and tools (Sentry, DataDog, or similar)
Hands-on with AWS Platform services and tools
Understanding of BDD practices

Personal Competencies
Be a great partner for your team members
Do not hesitate to propose new ideas
Be ready to take new challenges and learn more
Outstanding communication and negotiation skills
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