Backend Engineer- Python/GCP

Infosys Public Services is seeking a Backend Engineer- Python/GCP to join our team.

Position Description (scope of work or brief narrative):
The Technology Lead is responsible for designing, developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting high-performance mission-critical applications to meet the company's strategic objectives. The candidate will have in-depth knowledge of the technologies involved and Agile SDLC models

• Maintain and contribute to the product platform as necessary.
• Maintain and support products that are released to stakeholders and customers.
• Facilitate discussions among other developers to exchange new ideas and improvements.
• Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices that can be used to strengthen technology platforms and development practices.

A Day in the Life of an Infoscion

• As part of the Infosys delivery team, your primary role would be to interface with the client for quality assurance, issue resolution, and ensuring high customer satisfaction.
• You will understand requirements, create and review designs, validate the architecture, and ensure high levels of service offerings to clients in the technology domain.
• You will participate in project estimation, provide inputs for solution delivery, conduct technical risk planning, and perform code reviews and unit test plan reviews.
• You will lead and guide your teams towards developing optimized high-quality code deliverables, continual knowledge management, and adherence to the organizational guidelines and processes.

Required years of experience, training, technical skills, and other requirements for job performance:

• Minimum 4 years of experience building scalable, reliable backend systems.
• 4+ Years of software development experience
• Proficient in Python with hands-on expertise in modern frameworks/libraries like FastAPI and Pydantic.
• 4+ Years of software development experience
• Experienced in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code
• 4+ years of experience in Python (FastAPI, Pydantic)
• 4+ years of experience in RESTful API design
• 4+ years of experience in PostgreSQL
• 4+ years of experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• 4+ years of experience in Terraform (IaC)
• 4+ years of experience in GitHub (version control & CI/CD)
• 4+ years of experience in Scalable system architecture
• 4+ years of experience in Testing & debugging backend services
• Experience working within Agile, Scrum, or SAFe methodologies

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working in the public sector

Educational Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent is required from an accredited institution. Will consider three years of progressive, relevant work experience instead of every year of education. Candidates who have completed a Master's degree program are strongly preferred.

The job entails sitting and working at a computer for extended periods. Should be able to communicate by telephone, email, or face-to-face. Travel may be required as per the job requirements.