Python Backend Developer

Quick Facts

• Role: Python Backend Developer
• Focus: Asynchronous backend services with FastAPI and microservices
• Work mode: Hybrid (2 office days per month)

Description

Join a backend team building and maintaining modern Python services using FastAPI. You will develop new functionality, build asynchronous APIs, integrate systems via REST, and support migrations from legacy components to a microservices architecture. You will also help maintain code quality with automated tests and static analysis, working within CI/CD processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Python backend applications
• Design and build asynchronous APIs with FastAPI
• Create and maintain REST integrations
• Ensure code quality via automated tests and static analysis
• Participate in architecture design and apply software engineering best practices
• Contribute to CI/CD processes
• Collaborate with the team on migrations to modern microservices-based architecture

Requirements

• 4+ years of commercial Python experience
• 1+ year of FastAPI experience
• Experience with at least two Python web frameworks
• Practical async/await experience
• Strong REST API knowledge
• Docker knowledge
• CI/CD experience
• Familiarity with best practices: static analysis, typing, automated testing, DRY, SOLID, KISS, YAGNI

Benefits

• Team collaboration with diverse expert experience and open communication
• Long-term project involvement in an established IT organization
• Opportunity to work on varied projects for recognized industry leaders
• Access to modern technologies and engineering standards
• Flexible service delivery (hybrid or fully remote)
• Learning ecosystem: internal trainings, thematic guilds, and Cloud trainings/certifications
• Online English or German learning and group language classes
• Multisport and private medical care on preferential terms
• Supported sailing trips (Karibbean, Mediterranean, and North Sea)