Backend Engineer - Python at The Accuro Group

Business Title: 104695 | Backend Engineer - Python
Location: Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Job Type: Contract (7 M+)
Note: Hybrid Position

Job Responsibilities:

• Back-end development for a Python web application
• Integration of AI/ML components with frontend, data, and compute infrastructure
• Scale up of web application using cloud infrastructure
• Responsible for high quality software implementations according to best practices, including automated test suites and documentation
• Develop, measure, and monitor key metrics for all tools and services and consistently seek to iterate on and improve them
• Participate in code reviews, continuously improving personal standards as well as the wider team and product
• Liaise with other technical staff and data engineers in the team and across allied teams, to build an end-to-end pipeline consuming other data products.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field
• Cloud experience (e.g., Google Cloud and Cloud Run preferred) including core web application infrastructure
• Intermediate to advanced skills in Python
• Unit testing experience (e.g., pytest)
• Knowledge of agile practices and able to perform in agile software development environments
• Strong knowledge of modern software development tools / ways of working (e.g., git/GitHub, DevOps tools for deployment) – should be able to show practice of commit early and deploy often.