Lead Python Engineer

We are looking for a talented and driven Lead Python Engineer to lead a team of skilled developers in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable microservices and APIs for our Digital Health Platform. You will play a crucial role in fostering team collaboration, driving technical excellence, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Own team's solutions end-to-end: from requirements analysis through deployment and production support
• Be fully accountable for quality, performance, and reliability of all team deliverables
• Foster ownership culture where team members take responsibility for their work quality
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 5-7 Python developers with strong ownership mindset
• Ensure solutions meet all requirements before deployment and proactively resolve production issues
• Manage workload distribution and ensure balanced team capacity
• Define and enforce platform standards and best practices for the Digital Health Platform
• Oversee microservices architecture, inter-service communication, and API contract design
• Lead API-first development ensuring OpenAPI specs are source of truth with consistent auto-generated models
• Conduct thorough code reviews ensuring quality, consistency, and adherence to standards
• Stay current with industry trends and evaluate new technologies
• Break down requirements into actionable tasks and ensure team understands them from inception
• Hands-on contribution: design and implement scalable microservices and RESTful APIs using Python 3.12 and FastAPI
• Create and review OpenAPI specifications as source of truth, implementing APIs with auto-generated models
• Oversee Azure deployments using Kubernetes and Docker with CI/CD via GitHub Actions
• Ensure robust testing practices, including API contract testing with pytest
• Lead API contract discussions ensuring alignment across all consuming teams
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and OpenAPI specifications
• Proactively manage technical risks, dependencies, and team workload in fast-paced environment

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Python development
• At least 1 year of relevant leadership experience
• Proven expertise in FastAPI, Pydantic, and Uvicorn
• Experience with deployment on Azure using Kubernetes and Docker
• Skills in building CI/CD pipelines leveraging GitHub Actions
• Proficiency in designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
• Flexibility to use tools ensuring high code quality, such as ruff and mypy
• Competency in scaling and optimizing system reliability, scalability, and performance
• Showcase of hands-on leadership, mentoring, and collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Understanding of balancing delivery speed with quality and technical excellence
• Expertise in breaking down requirements into actionable tasks and ensuring alignment with team capacity
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English (B2+ level)

Nice to have

• Familiarity with OpenAPI Specification (OAS)
• Qualifications in pytest for API contract testing
• Knowledge of type checking using mypy

Benefits

With us you can:

• Work on a flexible schedule remotely or from any of our comfortable offices or coworking spaces in Ukraine
• Receive the necessary equipment to perform your work tasks
• Change projects and technology stacks within EPAM
• Gain experience in various business domains (Insurance, E-commerce, Healthcare, Finance, Travelling, Media, Artificial Intelligence, and more)
• Relocation opportunities may be available for eligible candidates, depending on the role and openings at other EPAM locations
• Participate in volunteer, charity programs and communities (both technical and interest-based)

We focus on your professional growth:

• You can plan your individual career path together with your manager
• Receive regular feedback from colleagues
• Improve your English for free with certified teachers (Speaking Clubs, client interview preparation courses, etc.)
• Get the opportunity to undergo free training and certification in AWS, GCP, or Azure Clouds
• Use the internal E-learn training program (18,200+ specialized training and mentoring programs)
• Access corporate accounts on LinkedIn Learning, Get Abstract and other partner resources
• Study at EPAM Solution Architecture School with the instructors who are practicing architects
• Develop as a leader, join Delivery Management, Resource Management, Leadership Essentials school and more
• Participate in internal communities (500+ meetups, technical discussions, brainstorming sessions, online events and conferences annually)

What we offer:

• Vacation and sick leave (including a sick leave without a medical certificate)
• A wide range of Voluntary Medical Insurance programs providing both medical treatment and various preventive options (including sports activities)
• Medical insurance for family members at corporate rates
• Company support during significant life events (childbirth or adoption, marriage, etc.)
• Support for psychological comfort: discounts on services from mental health specialists or coaches, thematic training
• E-kids program - a free programming language training program for EPAMers' children