Senior Python Engineer

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Please note that the position is only available to applicants from Germany and other EU countries.
The language requirements for this position are: English - Fluent.

As a Senior Python Engineer at Contiamo, your focus is on development and implementing technical designs while expanding your technical and leadership skills within a learning-focused environment. You'll be able to shape solutions and standards within Contiamo, as well as have the opportunity to implement greenfield solutions at scale for large enterprise organizations.

Activities

• Deliver Robust, High-Quality Solutions: Leverage web technologies, build APIs, work with relational databases, and implement event-driven systems (streams/queues) to create reliable, maintainable software.
• Engage in Technical Research and Evaluation: Participate in research and evaluation of tools, frameworks, and system design, with an emphasis on reliability and observability.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Data Teams in Multiple Disciplines: Work closely with data science and AI teams to deploy Generative AI and ML-based applications, ensuring seamless integration and performance.
• Contribute Across Projects: Apply and advocate for engineering best practices, code quality, and maintainability. Lead the implementation on a primary project while supporting other projects through code review, design discussions, and technical spikes.
• Share Knowledge and Foster Collaboration: Get the opportunity to share your knowledge internally at “show and tells” or externally by joining technical workshops to provide input to clients. Support everybody by writing and maintaining comprehensive, clear, and well-structured documentation.

Requirements

You’ve worked in technology long enough to demonstrate your ability to be an independent problem solver and can collaborate effectively with your team and external stakeholders. While you may not have mastered everything detailed below, you possess a majority of the following skills:

• Self-driven and curious, with a proactive approach to learning, improvement, and solving complex problems that can be shared across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Enjoy working across the entire spectrum of application development and data engineering from micro apps, distributed systems and streaming data, to data warehousing.
• Demonstrated commitment to quality, and are pretty good at balancing speed and reliability.
• Proficient in Python (or a similar language like Go, NodeJS) with extensive experience building, debugging, and optimizing APIs, distributed systems, and/or data pipelines. Advocate for strong typing, type hints, and schema documentation (e.g. OpenAPI).
• Experience with modern technologies and frameworks including FastAPI, PydanticAI, Haystack, LangChain, OpenTelemetry, Procrastinate, databases like Postgres and Snowflake, queue systems such as SQS / Kafka, and Airflow.
• A commitment to DevOps principles, you understand how applications get deployed, including CI/CD, containerization, orchestration systems like Kubernetes, and how it impacts application lifecycle.

Team

Contiamo is a premier consulting firm that brings together an interdisciplinary team of senior experts in data science, data engineering, mathematics, business consulting, and change management.

Our culture thrives on fast iterations and a high-trust environment where everyone is given significant responsibility. We believe in the power of a supportive atmosphere, valuing both individual contributions and the joy of teamwork.

As a small company, you will report directly to the CTO, and work closely with all engineers across the organization. When working with a client, you will be embedded in a smaller project team responsible for ensuring success of the engagement.

Application Process

• Screening call (round 0, length: 30-35m)
• Experience assessment call (round 1; length: 60m)
• Take home Coding Challenge + Code Review (round 2; length: 60m)
• Meet the Team / Communication assessment (round: 3; length: 90-120m; in-person preferred)
• Optional: Meet the Partners (round: 4; length: 45 - 60m; in-person preferred)

About the Company

Contiamo is a leading data and AI consulting company and end-to-end implementation partner based in Berlin. Originally founded as a SaaS company more than twelve years ago, we have extensive experience in implementing cutting-edge customized data and AI solutions for our clients.

We collaborate with industry leaders such as Mercedes Benz, CBRE, and Deutsche Telekom to tackle their most pressing business challenges through intelligent data usage. As a trusted partner, we pride ourselves on delivering scalable cloud applications and leveraging open-source tools to find elegant solutions to complex problems.

At Contiamo, our culture thrives on fast iterations and a high-trust environment where everyone is given significant responsibility. We believe in the power of a supportive atmosphere, valuing both individual contributions and the joy of teamwork. Our focus on excellence in execution and communication is evident in all aspects of our work.

In the last years, Generative AI has become a core focus for us and we have delivered many high value projects using cutting edge developments for our customers.