• Design, develop, and maintain Python applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement new features.
• Troubleshoot and optimize existing code for performance and scalability.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to team knowledge sharing.

Core Backend Skills

• Python (3.8+). Deep understanding of Python, async programming (e.g., async/await, asyncio), and typing.
• FastAPI. Experience building RESTful APIs using FastAPI, including dependency injection, Pydantic models, and background tasks.
• SQL/ORMs. Proficiency with PostgreSQL or MySQL and experience with ORMs like SQLAlchemy (especially async support).
• API Design. Ability to design, version, and document scalable APIs, ideally with OpenAPI / Swagger.

Temporal.io and Workflow Engineering

• Temporal SDK (Python/Go/Java). Hands-on experience building and maintaining workflows and activities. Ideally using Python SDK (or TypeScript/Go/Java if your stack uses those).
• Event-Driven Architecture. Understanding of decoupled systems, idempotent tasks, retry strategies, and durable state machines.
• Distributed Systems Comfort with concepts like retries, consistency, failover, observability in long-running workflows.
• Message Brokers Familiarity with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SNS/SQS if used to trigger workflows or events.

DevOps / Infrastructure

• Docker. Experience containerizing FastAPI apps and Temporal workers.
• CI/CD Pipelines. Familiarity with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar for automated testing and deployment.
• Cloud (AWS/Azure). Experience deploying services on EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, or similar.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Bonus). Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation for provisioning Temporal clusters and related infra.

Testing and Quality

• Pytest. Writing unit and integration tests for APIs and workflows.
• Test Containers (Bonus). For testing database/messaging locally in Docker.
• Monitoring/Logging. Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry for workflow observability.

Soft Skills / Project Experience

• System Design. Experience designing APIs or backend systems from scratch.
• Team Collaboration. Working in agile teams, handling PRs, participating in code reviews.
• Documentation. Able to write clear technical documentation for workflows and APIs.