Senior Software Python Developer

UNICON International - Gilbert, AZ

Full-time - Senior

Gilbert, AZ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Software Python Developer at Unicon Inc. plays a critical technical role in professional services projects, responsible for complex subsystems or entire technical delivery teams. This position involves project-level development estimation, defining technical practices, detecting insecure coding patterns, and ensuring the delivery of production-ready code. The role also includes deployment architecture design, debugging production issues, and recommending deployment and monitoring services. The developer will work with cutting-edge technologies in a supportive and collaborative environment focused on education technology.

Responsibilities

• Execute all responsibilities of a Software Developer, focusing on complex subsystems or entire technical delivery teams.
• Conduct large project-level development estimation efforts against speculative scopes.
• Define delivery team technical practices and processes.
• Detect and correct insecure coding patterns and implementations.
• Anticipate performance and scalability bottlenecks.
• Consistently deliver production-ready code.
• Contribute to deployment architecture design.
• Collaboratively triage and debug production issues.
• Recommend production deployment, monitoring, and support services and toolsets.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting Web-based applications.
• Experience with Python-based backend systems, especially with FastAPI and related technologies.
• Hands-on experience with education technology, particularly with 1EdTech integration specifications.
• Firm grounding in cloud computing principles and services from major providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Professional experience with containerization technologies, especially Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience writing automated unit and integration tests.
• Understanding of RESTful and/or GraphQL API design principles.
• Practical knowledge of database concepts, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with OWASP Top 10 Web application security risks.
• Experience estimating technical projects and participating in sales engineering processes.
• Proficient with source code control tools, especially Git.
• Working familiarity with Linux operating systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience as a technical team lead for software development projects.
• Influencing technical decisions at group or organization levels.
• Experience with microservices architectures.
• Experience with data processing, analytics, or AI/ML solutions.
• Familiarity with functions-as-a-service application architecture.
• Experience with modern authentication technologies like OAuth2 and SAML.
• Experience with automated integration test environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Agile software development experience, including Scrum and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Knowledge of modern JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, or Vue.

Benefits

• Flexible schedule
• Competitive compensation and benefit packages
• Casual work environment
• Family-oriented company culture