Senior Python API Developer

Salary: $140,000 - 200,000 per year Requirements:

• 7–10+ years of experience developing high-performance APIs with Python and modern web frameworks.
• Deep knowledge of RESTful API design and service-oriented architecture.
• Experience with asynchronous programming in Python.
• Familiarity with API gateway concepts, including routing, throttling, and request/response transformation.
• Experience implementing distributed caching solutions such as Redis.
• Experience with message queues or event-driven distributed architectures.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
• Ability to write clean, modular, reusable, and testable code.
• Knowledge of software design patterns, including Factory, Singleton, and Dependency Injection.
• Experience producing technical documentation and API specifications.
• Experience working in Agile environments.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Preferred: experience implementing API authentication and authorization.
• Preferred: familiarity with streaming APIs or WebSocket protocols.
• Preferred: experience using performance profiling tools to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• Preferred: experience with observability and monitoring, including distributed tracing, metrics, and logging.
• Preferred: familiarity with log aggregation and performance monitoring platforms.
• Preferred: experience managing environment-specific configurations and secrets.

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance Python APIs and scalable backend services using RESTful principles.
• Use asynchronous programming techniques to improve performance and responsiveness.
• Develop services that integrate with distributed components such as caching layers, message queues, and API gateways.
• Implement distributed caching strategies and optimize services for reliability, throughput, and low latency.
• Write modular, reusable, testable code aligned with enterprise standards and apply sound design patterns and architecture practices.
• Review code and help improve development standards and practices.
• Integrate services into CI/CD pipelines and support automated testing, builds, deployments, configuration, and deployment automation.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and performance tracking, and troubleshoot production issues and performance bottlenecks in distributed environments.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and infrastructure teams to deliver features and enhancements.
• Create clear technical documentation for APIs, services, and system components.
• Participate in Agile development and collaborate using modern project management tools.

• API
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Support
• Python
• Redis
• Web
• AI
• DevOps
• microservices

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We are Business Integration Partners (BIP), a digital consulting company with more than 6,000 professionals worldwide and a growing U.S. presence in New York, Charlotte, Chicago, and Houston. We partner with clients across financial services, insurance, payments, and other industries, combining business strategy, technology, data, and engineering expertise. Our U.S. Capital Markets technology practice works with trading, risk, and front-office technology organizations to modernize platforms and support complex financial products. This Senior Python API Developer role focuses on backend services for enterprise applications and involves collaboration across engineering teams. The base salary range is $140,000–$200,000, with flexibility for exceptional candidates. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; voluntary benefits; short- and long-term disability; HSA and FSA options; a matching 401(k); discretionary performance and employee referral bonuses; an employee assistance program; 11 public holidays; 20 PTO days; 7 sick days; a PTO buy-and-sell program; volunteer days; paid parental leave; and remote/hybrid work environment support. We provide equal employment opportunities based on job-related qualifications and ability, and maintain a workplace free from discrimination, intimidation, and harassment.

last updated 41 week of 2026