Python Back End Developer

Account Manager | MSP | VMS | ATS | Staff Augmentation | Talent Acquisition and Retention | Mentoring/Coaching

Position: Full Remote

Experience: Mid-Senior

Key Responsibilities

• • Troubleshoot and resolve delivery issues across environments, including pipeline failures and data inconsistencies.
• • Maintain and evolve schema-driven YAML/JSON configurations for distribution and exhibition platforms.
• • Support operational workflows by updating internal Python automation scripts.
• • Perform database-level investigations to validate data integrity and confirm fixes.
• • Work through PR-based change management with clear documentation and regression verification.
• • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth delivery operations.
• • Apply observability and log analysis techniques to trace failures and extract actionable insights.
• • Ensure compliance with schema validation and maintain configuration hygiene.

Mandatory Knowledge

• YAML/JSON (production-grade): Safe authoring/refactoring, strict structure, and change hygiene.
• Git + PR workflow: Clean diffs, review discipline, conflict handling, and controlled promotions.
• Observability & log analysis: Tracing failures across pipeline stages, correlating identifiers, and extracting actionable signals from logs/metrics.
• Schema/validation mindset: Interpreting schema/tooling errors and keeping configs compliant.
• Python: Debugging and adjusting existing scripts/automation; implementing targeted fixes safely.
• Databases (SQL): Querying to investigate production issues, validate data integrity, and confirm outcomes.
• Production support fundamentals: Incident triage, root-cause analysis, mitigations, and regression verification.
• Jinja templating: Understanding template-driven generation and making safe, minimal changes.

Optional Knowledge

• Media Supply Chain fundamentals: Deliverables, packaging concepts, metadata hierarchies, locale conventions, and downstream dependency impacts.
• Advanced mapping/config patterns (conditional/switch/lookup/padding; robust globals/locals usage).
• CI/automation improvements (linting/formatting, pre-validation checks, regression harnesses).
• Partner operations context (common rejection patterns, partner-specific exceptions, operational playbooks).
• Communication in incident/PR contexts (concise updates, change summaries, and requirement translation).

Preferred Experience

• Hands-on experience in production support for large-scale delivery platforms.
• Strong understanding of schema-driven configuration management and automation workflows.

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Information Technology