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Senior Python Developer
Location
United States
Posted
53 days ago
Salary
$90 - $110 / hour
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Python Developer
The Motley Fool
• Develop new features for our core commerce and customer engagement platforms. • Work directly with stakeholders to iterate and get rapid feedback on feature development. • Appropriately use AI tools like Claude Code and multi-agent workflows on a daily basis to assist with planning and implementation. • Ensure our critical transactional and event systems have high availability, durability, accuracy (since money is on the line), and remain highly performant. • Build and enhance admin tooling and workflows that enable our internal business stakeholders to be more self-sufficient. • Ensure features meet acceptance criteria and are supported by robust automated test coverage. • Integrate with third-party providers and tools (such as Stripe and Braze)—leveraging their existing functionality and working around their limitations. • Investigate, troubleshoot, and fix reported bugs and Sentry errors. • Collaborate with the Product Owner and Project Manager to break down business requirements into clear technical stories and tasks. • Partner with multiple in-house engineering squads and external providers to launch customer-facing solutions. • Review peer code and participate in our team’s on-call rotation to maintain system reliability. • Support and scale platforms across multiple countries.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building, delivering, enhancing, and maintaining APIs consumed by multiple systems using Python and a Python-based API framework like FastAPI.
- Experience building scalable, high-performance backends served to hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users.
- Hands-on experience with Stripe billing and payment infrastructure.
- Strong experience with asynchronous data retrieval and processing in Python.
- Experience with Docker, containerization, and modern automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in system monitoring, telemetry, and debugging production performance issues.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and translation skills (turning business goals into reliable technical execution).
- Ability to work US East Coast core hours (spanning the 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST timeframe).
- Nice-to-Have/Pluses: Experience with Braze (or similar customer engagement platforms), RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, legacy .NET/C# migration, or frontend technologies like Next.js, React, Tailwind, and TypeScript.
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