Senior Python Engineer

Senior Python Engineer needed for a remote contract role focusing on backend development and GenAI integration. You will build scalable services, design RESTful APIs, and work with AI APIs like OpenAI and Hugging Face. This role requires US time zone overlap and involves cloud infrastructure on Azure.

• Develop and maintain scalable back-end services.
• Ensure seamless integration with front-end applications and external services through well-designed RESTful APIs.
• Leverage cloud infrastructure (Azure Functions, Azure Storage) for hosting and scaling applications.
• Implement security best practices for API authentication (OAuth, JWT) and data protection.
• Possibly work on GenAI-driven applications, utilizing AI APIs.
• Containerize applications using Docker for environment management.

• Expertise in Python for back-end development.
• Experience with FastAPI or Flask for building scalable RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with OpenAI, HuggingFace or similar AI APIs.
• Experience with MCP/FastMCP.
• Ability to work with large datasets and perform data cleaning, transformation, and manipulation.
• Hands-on experience with cloud deployment, CI/CD pipelines, ideally on Azure.
• Understanding of async patterns to improve performance.