What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Python Backend Developer position at Insight Global?
Software Engineer (Python/FastAPI) — AI Applications
- Role: Build, operate, and scale Python APIs and backend services that integrate AI capabilities (e.g., Google Gemini via Vertex AI) to power internal and external applications. You will not build models; you’ll productionize integrations, orchestrations, and data flows around them.
Required Qualifications
- 6–8 years software engineering (mid–senior); strong Python 3.x.
- Production FastAPI (or Flask) delivering secure, versioned APIs.
- Cloud experience on GCP or AWS, Azure (e.g., Cloud Run/GKE/Pub/Sub or Lambda/EKS/API Gateway/SQS).
- Datastores: Postgres/MySQL and one of Redis/ElastiCache/Memorystore; migrations and schema design.
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Cloud Build), containerization (Docker), IaC familiarity (Terraform helpful).
- Testing culture (unit/integration/contract), API specs (OpenAPI), and observability.
- Strong grasp of resiliency patterns and performance tuning in distributed systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience integrating AI services (Vertex AI/Gemini, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI) and prompt/response handling.
- Intermediate data engineering skills with Python/SQL
- Security: OAuth/OIDC, JWT, service-to-service auth, KMS/Secrets Manager.
- Data pipelines basics (e.g., batch to feature/API), and schema evolution practices.
- Front end experience with React is a big plus (this would ultimately mean a full stack candidate).
What You’ll Do
- Design, implement, and document FastAPI services and SDKs for AI features.
- Integrate third-party AI providers (Gemini, Bedrock, OpenAI) with secure, observable patterns.
- Build event-driven and synchronous backends (REST/webhooks/queues) with robust error handling.
- Optimize latency, throughput, and cost; add caching, rate limiting, and retries/circuit breakers.
- Ship high-quality code with tests, CI/CD.
- Instrument services (structured logs, metrics, traces) and own production readiness/runbooks.
- Collaborate with product, data, and ML teams to translate requirements into APIs and workflows.
- Uphold security, privacy, and compliance (secrets, OAuth/OIDC, PII handling).
Salary : $60 - $70