Senior Python Full Stack Engineer (Terraform)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Python Full Stack Engineer (Terraform)
• Location: Oaks, PA (onsite from Day 1; 3–4 days per week)
• Experience: 9+ years

Description

You will provide hands-on application support, maintenance, defect resolution, and minor enhancements for IBM use cases. Serve as the team’s primary application-code specialist and collaborate closely with Senior DevOps engineers to resolve production issues, including incident analysis and RCA.

Responsibilities

• Provide L2/L3 application support and code-level troubleshooting for IBM use cases
• Diagnose and resolve defects across Python backend services, REST APIs, UI components, database interactions, integrations, and AI-enabled functionality
• Analyze production incidents using code, logs, telemetry, database queries, API traces, and application configuration
• Implement bug fixes, maintenance releases, technical-debt remediation, and small enhancements
• Develop and maintain Python/FastAPI services and API integrations with other applications/platforms
• Maintain and troubleshoot data access across Cosmos DB, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and related Azure storage services
• Support front-end code where applicable
• Write and maintain unit, integration, API, and regression tests
• Support secure coding, dependency upgrades, vulnerability remediation, configuration management, and application performance improvements
• Support AI-enabled workflows (model/service integration, prompt/config changes, error handling, monitoring)
• Partner with DevOps engineers on deployments, monitoring, production diagnostics, RCA, and automation
• Keep technical documentation and operational runbooks current

Requirements

• 7+ years of full-stack or backend application development/support experience
• Strong Python development skills, preferably including FastAPI
• Strong experience building and consuming REST APIs
• Experience with a modern web framework such as React or Angular
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
• Database experience across relational and NoSQL platforms, ideally SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Cosmos DB
• Experience troubleshooting distributed/cloud-native applications in production
• Knowledge of automated testing, Git, CI/CD, application security, and observability
• Experience supporting AI/ML or GenAI-enabled applications is highly desirable