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    Senior Python Engineer & Tech Lead

    • Remote
      • Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
      • Bucuresti, București, Romania
      +1 more
    • Python

    Job description

    Yopeso has been developing a diverse range of software products, from large-scale applications to smaller solutions, for 20 years. With a growing team of over 300 employees across five locations, we are dedicated to fostering a culture of growth, transparency, and professionalism.

    At Yopeso, we value authenticity, curiosity, and ambition. These values drive us to build strong connections within our community and with our partners, ensuring trust, integrity, and transparency in all our business practices. We strive to maintain the highest professional standards and continuously challenge ourselves to develop high-quality, high-performance, and secure software solutions.

    Our approach is rooted in efficient collaboration among passionate professionals working in agile teams. Guided by curiosity and ambition, we strive to create products that are meaningful and impactful, while remaining true to our authentic selves.

    What we offer:

    • Competitive remuneration

    • Remote work

    • 24 days off per year and floating days

    • Private clinic health services Regina Maria Medical Insurance

    • Flexible benefits through Up multibenefits platform

    • Referral bonus scheme

    • Team events, online or at the office

    • Training and development opportunities with allocated budget

    • Professional Certifications

    • Knowledge sharing context

    Job requirements

    About the Role

    We are looking for a Senior Python Engineer & Tech Lead to take ownership of our Python backend ecosystem and play a key role in shaping the future of our technology stack. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will build, scale, and guide a growing engineering team while remaining deeply involved in architecture, system design, and production code.

    You will be the technical anchor for all Python backend services, driving architectural decisions, improving platform reliability, and leading large-scale initiatives across multiple teams and domains.

    The role starts at approximately 70% hands-on development and gradually evolves toward greater technical leadership and team management as the team grows.

    What You’ll Do

    Technical Leadership (Primary Focus)

    • Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Python, FastAPI, and SQLAlchemy

    • Own the architecture of our Python backend, including a monorepo with independent REST services

    • Lead major technical initiatives such as platform migrations, system integrations, and infrastructure upgrades

    • Coordinate releases and deployments for Python services

    • Ensure performance, scalability, reliability, and security across the platform

    • Participate in cross-stack architectural decisions (Python, PHP, Go, Flutter)

    • Implement security, data protection, and compliance best practices

    • Write clean, well-documented, production-grade code

    Team Leadership (Growing Responsibility)

    • Mentor and coach engineers through 1:1s, pair programming, and code reviews

    • Provide technical direction and help unblock engineers

    • Protect the team from ad-hoc work and unclear requirements

    • Lead or support agile ceremonies (planning, standups, retrospectives)

    • Work with Product to refine requirements and estimate initiatives

    • Promote knowledge sharing, documentation, and engineering excellence

    Cross-Team Collaboration

    • Work closely with DevOps, PHP, frontend, and product teams

    • Act as a bridge between engineering and business stakeholders

    • Drive alignment on technical standards, tooling, and best practices

    What We’re Looking For

    Required Technical Skills

    • 7+ years of backend development with Python in professional environments

    • Strong experience with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and ORM-based architectures

    • Deep knowledge of databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB)

    • Experience designing and building RESTful APIs

    • Solid understanding of async programming and event-driven systems

    • Experience with Docker, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments

    • Familiarity with AWS and cloud-native development

    Leadership & Delivery

    • Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives from planning to delivery

    • Experience mentoring and coaching engineers

    • Strong documentation and communication skills

    • Comfortable estimating and planning large technical projects

    • Ability to coordinate work across multiple teams

    Soft Skills

    • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

    • Ability to push back constructively on unclear or unrealistic requirements

    • Excellent stakeholder management

    • Collaborative, pragmatic, and results-driven mindset

    Nice to Have

    • Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) and container orchestration

    • Event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.)

    • Knowledge of PHP (useful for legacy systems and migrations)

    • Experience with microservices

    • Observability tools (Grafana, CloudWatch, Prometheus, etc.)

    • AWS services (ECS, Lambda, RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB)

    • Product-oriented mindset

    • German language skills (team is multilingual; German is a plus)

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