Sr. Python Developer

Bachelor s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, IT, or equivalent (MSc/MCA preferred).

8+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial production Python development. Avoid requiring eight years of AI/LLM experience, since the field is newer.

Strong Python fundamentals: typing, async/concurrency, API design, error handling, testing, profiling, and maintainable package/service architecture.

Production experience with FastAPI or a comparable Python API framework, relational databases, and automated testing/CI.

Applied experience building or operating LLM-backed applications, preferably RAG systems using embeddings, vector or hybrid retrieval, and reranking.

Understanding of how to evaluate LLM features with representative datasets, measurable acceptance criteria, and regression tests rather than relying on prompt review alone.

Experience securing APIs and distributed services, including authentication, authorization, secrets, and safe handling of sensitive data.

Experience operating containerized services in Kubernetes or a comparable production platform.

Strong communication and technical leadership: can explain tradeoffs, review designs, mentor engineers, and own work through production support.

Experience working in Agile development methodology.

Experience with industrial automation, process control, engineering documentation, or other safety- or reliability-sensitive domains.

Experience with on-premises or air-gapped deployments, private registries, customer-managed certificates, and local inference.

Familiarity with inference serving and optimization such as batching, concurrency limits, quantization, GPU memory management, or model capacity planning.

Experience with tools such as PostgreSQL/pgvector, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Experience with agents or MCP servers, especially permissioned tools, auditability, and robust failure behavior.

React/TypeScript experience if this role is expected to contribute substantially to the UI.

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