Python Developer
Title: Python Developer Location: Chicago, IL (fully onsite role)
Project Duration: 6+ Month(s) Contract to hire Skillset: Seeking an engineer with strong Python coding skills as the top priority, along with experience in Java and automation tools such as JMeter or Playwright. Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, JUnit or similar testing frameworks, and basic performance/load testing is preferred. Experience with AWS is a bonus.
Must haves: Strong Python coding skills, java, JMeter or Playwright
Nice to haves:
CI/CD, JUnit, AWS About the RoleWe are seeking a Python Developer to design, build, and deploy robust machine learning and AI-driven services. You will collaborate with data scientists, data teams, and product teams to translate models and prototypes into scalable, production-grade APIs and applications. This is a hands-on engineering role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and deploy Python-based APIs and microservices for machine learning and AI solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Collaborate with AI/ML teams to productionize ML models (e.g., regression, classification, NLP, GenAI) and integrate them into business applications.
- Automate model lifecycle management including versioning, deployment, monitoring, and retraining using MLOps best practices.
- Implement and enforce data integrity, normalization, and reconciliation processes, leveraging tools like Great Expectations or custom validation logic.
- Ensure robust testing, monitoring, and observability for all deployed services, including logging, metrics, and alerting.
- Develop and optimize high-performance SQL and NoSQL queries for large-scale data warehousing and transactional systems.
- Champion Agile software engineering practices and participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and continuous integration/deployment processes.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience in application development using Python.
- Experience with a public cloud platform (AWS, or Google Cloud)