Senior Full Stack Developer (Angular + Python)

Senior Full Stack Developer (Angular + Python)

Location: Chicago, IL Type: Contract Compensation: Open Work Model: Onsite – onsite/Remote Hours: 40.0

Responsibilities

• Design and implement frontend components using Angular, including component architecture, modules, lazy loading, standalone components, and reusable design systems.
• Manage state with NgRx or Angular Signals, employing reactive patterns with RxJS, and designing service-layer interactions.
• Optimize performance through change detection tuning, AOT compilation, and testing with Jasmine, Jest, or Cypress, ensuring accessibility standards are met (WCAG).
• Develop backend APIs with Python FastAPI, including RESTful endpoint creation, Pydantic models, dependency injection, and OpenAPI documentation.
• Implement async/await patterns, background tasks, caching, and rate limiting for performance enhancements.
• Manage security and authentication using JWT/OAuth2, middleware, CORS, and coordinate input validation following OWASP guidelines.
• Design and model PostgreSQL schemas, implement normalization, indexing strategies, migrations with Alembic, and optimize queries using EXPLAIN ANALYZE, CTEs, window functions.
• Utilize SQLAlchemy for ORM and transaction management, ensuring transaction isolation and connection pooling.
• Work with AWS cloud services, including serverless architecture, Lambda functions, SNS/SQS messaging, data pipelines with AWS Glue ETL, S3, and IAM security.
• Participate in sprint planning, issue estimation, risk escalation, stakeholder communication, and collaborate across product, QA, and DevOps teams.

Requirements

• Proven experience with Angular 15+ including NgRx, RxJS, Angular Signals, and TypeScript.
• Strong backend development skills with Python 3.10+, FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, and API design principles.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, and migrations using Alembic.
• Knowledge of AWS cloud services such as Lambda, Glue, SNS, SQS, S3, and CloudWatch.
• Experience implementing security and authentication with JWT and OAuth2.
• Familiarity with performance tuning, accessibility standards, and testing frameworks like Jasmine, Jest, and Cypress.
• Excellent collaboration, mentoring, and communication skills in a team environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field preferred.