Contract Senior Backend Developer - Python

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• 5+ years of experience in building, delivering, enhancing, and maintaining reputed company consumed by multiple systems using Python-based frameworks like Fast API and Django.
• Experience building reputed company, high performance backends served to hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users.
• Significant experience in data caching and caching strategies.
• Experience with asynchronous data retrieval and processing.
• Experience working with relational databases, ORMs, and SQL.
• Experience with query tuning and optimization.
• Experience with reputed company, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficient in system monitoring and telemetry.
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• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

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• Experience in architecting and developing financial microservices.
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• Experience with AWS services including AWS SQS, AWS RDS, AWS Dynamo
• Familiarity with Next.js, React, and JavaScript.
• Experience with portfolio aggregation services, such as reputed company.
• Knowledge of reputed company.

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