Godel Technologies is looking for a Python Engineer to join a project for a global payment gateway provider serving clients worldwide. The platform ensures secure, fast, and reliable payment processing. A key initiative focuses on modernizing a long-standing monolith and transforming it into a scalable microservices architecture.

• Backend: Python 3.1x , Flask
• Databases: PostgreSQL (Aurora RDS AWS), DynamoDB
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, S3, SQS
• Testing: Pytest, MyPy
• CI/CD: Jenkins , Terraform
• Deployment: Daily releases via feature flags

• Lead and mentor the engineering team
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable finance-focused backend solutions using Python
• Integrate external systems and third-party APIs
• Work closely with Product Managers and Tech Leads to define, size, and solve real-world telecom customer problems
• Write high-quality, well-tested code ensuring reliable daily deployments to production
• Participate in peer reviews, refinements, and continuous feedback loops across a multi-disciplinary team
• Maintain a developer-first quality culture: own unit, integration, and functional testing
• Be part of a weekly engineering goal-setting process

Must have:

• Strong Python engineering skills, experience in building large-scale applications)
• Experience working with AWS services)
• Good understanding of integration patterns, API development (REST / GraphQL), and third-party system interoperability)
• Solid experience in building automated tests: unit, integration, and E2E tests)
• Passion for clean code, peer reviews, and high code quality standards)
• Familiarity with scaling large systems — vertical scaling, single-tenant deployments)
• Self-driven, comfortable with autonomy and open team cultures (trust > process))
• Readiness to work with Windows (WSL)

Nice to have:

• Code generation tools, AI assistants – Amazon Q, Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.
• Experience working in the financial services domain would be beneficial