Principal AI Python Developer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior / Principal / Sr. Principal Software Engineer (Cloud Platform) focused on AI-native cloud solutions

• Type: Individual contributor; hands-on technical leadership

• Platform: Cloud-native development on AWS (experience with other major clouds acceptable)

Description

Join as a senior/principal software engineer to design and build AI-native cloud platforms for financial services. You will solve complex distributed systems challenges, design scalable cloud architectures, and write high-performance, production-grade Python code with AI capabilities. You’ll own systems end-to-end and mentor engineers while partnering with product teams and AI specialists.

Role Description / Responsibilities

• Design and develop highly scalable, cloud-native platforms on AWS

• Create distributed systems, APIs, event-driven services, and core platform components

• Drive engineering excellence through clean architecture, rigorous testing, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational best practices

• Own systems end-to-end—from initial design to production deployment and ongoing operations

• Mentor fellow engineers and promote technical excellence and best practices

• Collaborate closely with product teams and AI specialists to deliver enterprise-grade software solutions

Requirements

• 8+ years (Senior) / 12+ years (Principal) / 15+ years (Sr. Principal) of software engineering experience

• Hands-on coding expertise with Python

• Deep experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native applications on AWS/Azure/OCI/GCP

• Strong understanding of distributed systems: scalability, resilience, performance optimization, and security

• Proven delivery of high-reliability production systems using CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and monitoring

• Excellent system design skills and effective technical communication

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

• Ability to work independently as a technical leader

Benefits

• Opportunity to shape AI-native cloud technologies for financial services

• Hands-on technical leadership with end-to-end ownership and mentoring influence