Senior Backend Developer (Python / Docker)

Description

We're seeking a strong and creative Software Developer eager to solve problems of scale and work on cutting edge and open-source technologies. In this project, you will have the opportunity to write code that will impact thousands of users every month. You'll implement your critical thinking and technical skills to develop cutting edge software, and you'll have the opportunity to interact with teams across disciplines. In Luxoft, our culture is one that strives on solving difficult problems focusing on product engineering based on hypothesis testing to empower people to come up with ideas. Great Place to Work Institute certifies us as one of the Top 10 companies to work for in Mexico and other geographies, and we do it with a truly flexible environment, high impact projects in Agile environments, a culture focused on results, training and strong support to grow your career.

What we offer

• Global Relocation - (Relocation options; Experience in an international environment; Cross-cultural experience)

• Recognition and Evaluation - (Feedback culture; Regular appraisals)

• Time Off - (Annual holiday - 20 or 26 days. The duration of the leave depends on the overall seniority; Occasional leave - 1 or 2 days/ depending on the circumstances; Child care leave - 2 days or 16 hours per year; Absence due to force majeure - 2 days or 16 hours per year; Maternity Leave - 20 weeks; Parental Leave - 41 weeks; Paternity Leave - 14 days)

• Luxoft Training Center - (Expert-led tech courses covering basic to advanced topics; Internal instructor-led soft skills courses; Comprehensive in-house self-learning resources for both soft and hard skills; Access to external self-learning libraries like ProQuest eBook and Udemy for Business; Cloud Programs: MS Cloud Academy, AWS Partner Academy, Google Cloud Academy; Custom Learning Programs: upskilling, reskilling, technical mentorship; Leadership Programs for Managers)

• Well-being and Work-life Balance - (Multisport card; Possibility to order Multisport card at the corporate rate for family members; LuxGood Program: wellbeing seminars, contests, relaxation sessions, yoga sessions, etc.; One Team Program: Buddy for each New Joiner; seminars, meeting and workplace space to support integration with local community and culture; “Hire me” workshops for partners; Preferential banking offer; Preferential car leasing offer; Cafeteria program discounts for shops, cinema tickets, holiday offers; Luxoft Social Benefit Fund: sport and recreation benefits, the possibility to receive financial support)

• Health Care - (Private Healthcare Insurance with unlimited access to specialists; Full dental support; Travel Insurance; Possibility to add private healthcare coverage for family members at the corporate rate; Life insurance at the corporate rate for employees and family members, including payment of the basic package for the employee by the employer; Reimbursement for corrective glasses)

• Company Events and Friendly Environment - (Many fun social activities organized by the Luxoft team offline in your city; Online entertainment events for whole company and local team events; A workplace where you’re treated with respect within a multicultural team)

• Internal Mobility - (Rotation between projects and accounts; New career opportunities)

• Self-Learning Library

• CSR Projects

Other

• Languages: English: B2 Upper Intermediate

• Seniority: Senior

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience

• Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and design patterns

• Advanced proficiency in Python 3.12+ as software or data engineering

• MongoDB, ideally with Beanie ODM (async) for persistence layer

• OAuth/OIDC + JWT — auth via Keycloak and Descope; backend is provider-agnostic, works off JWT claims

• Docker / docker-compose — everything runs in containers

• Mastery of API design (REST), FastAPI (async)

• Comprehensive grasp of databases (SQL/NoSQL)

• Expertise in cloud services

• Experience with Event-Driven Microservices Identity management/OAuth

• Experience with observability, tracing, and other cloud-native patterns

• Healthcare interoperability resources (FHIR) R4, SMART Health Links/Cards (SHL/SHC)

• JWE decryption

• Testing discipline: pytest + Cucumber/Playwright E2E

• QR/image decoding (pyzbar/zbar)

• storage connector integration (Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, SMTP, FHIR servers)

• Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus

• infrastructure: Apache Kafka, AWS Secrets Manager

Responsibilities

• Work closely with other engineers, designers, and management teams to rapidly build, iterate, test, and deploy new features and products and main a high-quality robust codebase

• Improve and scale the existing products and tools

• Launch new projects from ideation to completion

• Actively support your team's deployed software

• Drive the development team towards the goal by integrating skills and experiences.

• design integration with 3rd parties (Python AWS interoperability role)

• work with Auths (Authorizations) process

• connect to many different systems interoperability via healthcare data / companies / health systems / EMR

• Work with QA, product management, and operations in an Agile environment.

• Develop and support data-driven product decisions in a high energy high-impact team.

• Participate in the resolution of production issues and lead efforts toward solutions.

• To maintain legacy applications and participate in the migration to newer technology in the mid-term if needed.

• Collaborate and drive research to find the solution to system bugs and issues.