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About the position
Kforce has a client in Irving, TX that is seeking a Python API Developer. The role involves executing the full product life cycle from inception through deprecation to create highly scalable and flexible RESTful APIs that enable an infinite number of digital products. The developer will collaborate with other Engineers, Creative/UX designers, Scrum Masters, Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Architects.
Responsibilities
- Executes full product life cycle (inception through deprecation) to create highly scalable and flexible RESTful APIs.
- Collaborate with other Engineers, Creative/UX designers, Scrum Masters, Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Architects.
- Participate in designing, developing, reviewing, testing, and deploying APIs (including supporting infrastructure) to drive digital products.
Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience.
- 3+ years of python server development using Django, Flask, Bottle or other python frameworks.
- Ability to write unit-tested and maintainable code.
- Expertise working with and building RESTful APIs.
- Expert in Python.
- Knowledgeable in cloud platforms (preferable AWS: both traditional EC2 and serverless Lambda).
- Experience with micro-services architecture, CI/CD solutions (including Docker), DevOps principles, message queue systems, and background task management.
- Experience with API security frameworks, token management and user access control including OAuth, JWT, etc.
- Solid foundation and understanding of relational and NoSQL database principles.
- Strong writing and communication skills.
- Understanding of OOP and Data Structures and know when to apply them in daily coding scenarios.
- Experience with message queues (RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, etc.).
- Experience with background task processing (Celery, etc.).
- Experience configuring container like systems (Vagrant, Docker, etc.).
- Basic understanding of modern web components (HTML/CSS/JS).
- Ability to self-organize with minimal guidance/competing priorities and work effectively within a team.
- Large organization experience - Large Scale projects.
- Ability to work in an Agile /SCRUM environment.
