{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"a00c59ffb2961e40353e14e7","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a00c59ffb2961e40353e14e7","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a00c59ffb2961e40353e14e7","title":"Senior Software Engineer (Python) - Contractor","description":"About This Role\r\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in building and maintaining secure, scalable applications that support critical customer and business needs. You'll work across the stack — from designing backend services to implementing front-end features while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.\r\nThis role is hands-on: you'll translate requirements into well-designed solutions, write production-ready code, participate in code reviews, and contribute to the overall reliability and performance of our systems. You'll also help support our applications in production through on-call rotations and proactive issue resolution.\r\nThis position is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving real-world problems, working in modern cloud environments, and contributing to systems end-to-end. You'll have the opportunity to deepen your technical expertise, influence design decisions, and grow within a supportive engineering culture.\r\nAt Very the key distinction between mid, senior and lead roles is the scope and depth of your expertise and responsibility. As a mid you can own and deliver tasks (work packages) with a high level of professionalism and know when to reach out for help. As a senior, you have deep expertise in your area of specialization and can execute independently in your domain while interfacing with other software stacks. As a lead you become a true full stack engineer with the ability to plan, execute and lead a team across the full software stack, while interfacing with non-software aspects of the project.\r\nThis is not an easy role. You'll work in complex domains, under real deadlines, and with clients who expect you to bring clarity, confidence, and results. If you find satisfaction in doing hard things well — in solving tough problems, building real systems, and helping others rise to the challenge — you'll fit right in.\r\nAs a client services organization, travel may be required up to 10% of the time.\r\nWhat You'll Be Working On\r\nEvery engagement at Very is different, but they share one common theme: we build things that matter. From connected hardware and data systems to large-scale web and AI-driven platforms, you'll:\r\nCapture technical requirements and contribute to high-level and low-level design for software solutions using AWS and Azure technologies.\r\nWrite production-grade Python, and SQL code that meets high standards for maintainability, security, and observability.\r\nBuild and support complex, microservice-based, event-driven systems.\r\nImplement testing strategies and automation across the stack.\r\nParticipate in on-call rotation and help maintain system health, performance, and reliability.\r\nCollaborate across engineering, design, and product to deliver high-quality outcomes.\r\nIdentify and proactively address potential technical or operational risks before they impact customers.\r\nYou'll operate in a modern, polyglot environment that includes:\r\nFrontend: React, Vite, Expo, TypeScript, WebSockets, Progressive Web Apps\r\nBackend: Python, FastAPI, Django, Node.js\r\nCloud: AWS (Lambda, ECS, Fargate, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS), Azure\r\nDevOps: Docker, Terraform, Pulimi, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines\r\nDatabases: Postgres, Redis, TimescaleDB, DynamoDB\r\nTesting: Jest, Cypress, Pytest, and other automated test frameworks\r\nOutcomes\r\nDeliver High-Quality Features: Ship secure, reliable code that meets requirements, adheres to standards, and delivers measurable business value.\r\nStrengthen System Reliability: Improve observability, performance, and operational excellence across services and components.\r\nSupport Cross-Functional Delivery: Collaborate effectively with lead engineers, designers, PMs, and client stakeholders.\r\nRaise the Bar: Contribute to better patterns, tooling, and engineering standards across teams.\r\nEnhance Customer Success: Proactively identify and resolve technical issues that could impact system behavior or user experience.\r\nResponsibilities\r\nImplement features across frontend, backend, and cloud components.\r\nParticipate in technical design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions.\r\nWrite clean, scalable, and secure code following Very's engineering standards.\r\nCreate and maintain automated tests across all layers of the stack.\r\nSupport deployments, CI/CD pipelines, logging, monitoring, and alerting.\r\nParticipate in code reviews, offering constructive feedback that improves overall quality.\r\nParticipate in 24/7 on-call rotation and assist in diagnosing and resolving production issues.\r\nSupport documentation and knowledge sharing within teams.\r\nMinimum Qualifications\r\nGeneral Experience\r\nBS or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field\r\n8+ years of professional software development experience\r\n4+ years of experience developing Python based backend applications\r\nFull software development lifecycle experience, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.\r\nExperience building complex, event-driven, microservice-based systems.\r\nStrong understanding of production-grade system reliability, observability, and security.\r\nExperience working in or with government sectors is a strong plus.\r\nClient-facing or consulting experience preferred but not required.\r\nTechnical Proficiency\r\nDeep expertise in Python backend frameworks such as Django and FastAPI\r\nFluency with frontend technologies including React, Expo, Vite and TypeScript\r\nSkilled in relational and non-relational data modeling and SQL development\r\nExtensive knowledge in supporting event driven cloud platforms in AWS including security, logging, monitoring, observability and performance at scale\r\nAWS service knowledge: Lambda, ECS, Fargate, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS\r\nAbility to debug and modify CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or Pulimi)\r\nEducation\r\nBS or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field\r\nLocation\r\nPrimary residence in Colombia with proper work authorization. We do not sponsor work visas.\r\nSkills\r\nClient Obsessed: Keeps the client's success front and center. Measures technical choices by their business impact.\r\nCommunicates Effectively: Expert communicator who informs, engages, and aligns diverse audiences.\r\nSets the Bar: Holds themselves and others to exceptionally high technical and delivery standards.\r\nThrives in the Grind: Finds energy and satisfaction in complex, high-stakes work — and helps others do the same.\r\nLeads Through Complexity: Brings clarity and direction when projects are messy, high-pressure, or uncertain.\r\nAI as a Default: AI tools such as Claude are integrated into everything you do, you know how to use them efficiently and you know the limits of what they can do.\r\nCompensation\r\nBase Compensation: USD $40–$60 per hour, commensurate with experience.\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Very","rawCompany":"very","city":"New York","state":"NY","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-05-27T00:33:28.681Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1251.00","title":"Computer Programmers","slug":"computer-programmers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Software Engineer (Python) - Contractor","description":"About This Role\r\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in building and maintaining secure, scalable applications that support critical customer and business needs. 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