Aws freelance python developer

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain enterprise-grade applications using Python


• Participate in solution design and software architecture discussions


• Build scalable, resilient and secure applications deployed on AWS


• Work closely with Product Owners, Architects and Infrastructure teams to define technical solutions


• Lead technical design sessions and contribute to architecture roadmaps


• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks


• Review code, mentor developers and promote engineering best practices


• Ensure solutions are secure, maintainable and aligned with architectural standards


• Contribute throughout the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), from requirements gathering through to deployment and support

Desired Skills and Experience

Core Development

• Strong Python development experience (5+ years)


• Experience building production-grade applications, APIs and microservices


• REST API development


• Unit, integration and automated testing


• Cloud & AWS


• Strong AWS experience


• Experience with services such as:


• Lambda


• ECS/EKS


• API Gateway


• S3


• RDS


• DynamoDB


• IAM


• CloudWatch


• Understanding of cloud-native architecture patterns

Architecture

• Application architecture design


• Microservices architecture


• Event-driven architectures


• System integration patterns


• Non-functional requirements (security, scalability, resilience, performance)

Engineering Practices

• CI/CD pipelines


• DevOps principles


• Infrastructure as Code knowledge (Terraform desirable)

Desired Experience

• Experience designing distributed systems


• Experience working within regulatory or financial services environments


• Previous Technical Lead or Senior Software Engineer experience


• Exposure to Kubernetes and containerisation


• Knowledge of software security best practices