Python Developer -W2 Location: Houston, TX Should have both Technical and Leadership Skills, technical should be strong development experience and leadership be able to work with the business. See below the Technical mandatory requirements. Job Description: Roles and Responsibilities: • Must be able to work independently within defined projects/work streams and is checked on at the end for results. • Possesses a strong understanding of large-scale application architecture and design. • Must have strong communication skills, particularly in collaborating with external parties, including business stakeholders. This is essential. • Has an executional role in design and development projects or acts as an expert tester who designs test scripts and provides overall project guidance and planning support. • Advises internally on solving functional and technical problems regarding the assigned applications and Infrastructure. Mandatory skills: --API development using Python as OOP --Experience in how distributed asynchronous systems work, how to design them to avoid data conflicts and how to do it all in immutable environments orchestrated across multiple machines. --Experience with database technologies such as SQL DB, Oracle --Experience with Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Azure/AWS, GitHub, or experience with any kind of message broker system (e.g. RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, AWS SQS etc) --Excellent analytical, problem-solving, coding, testing, and automation skill --Object-orientated software professional that ideally has experience using at least one strongly-typed language --Collaborate with the lead functional developer to define, develop, test, and release new features --Provide workarounds & bug fixes for urgent production issues --Familiar with DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment --Experience at mentoring junior staff