Python Team Lead, Integration team

Responsibilities

- Provide leadership for a team

- Take full ownership of backend features and improvements, from design through implementation, deployment, and production support

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services using Python and Django

- Build and maintain integrations with external systems, including KYC, geolocation, and payment partners, and other third-party services

- Work closely with product and engineering teams to scope and deliver new integrations

- Implement observability across integration flows, including monitoring, logging, and alerting

- Write unit and integration tests to ensure system reliability, prevent regressions, and improve overall test coverage and testing practices

- Support production issues and participate in on-call rotations

Requirements

- Experience leading and managing a team of at least 3 engineers

- At least 5+ years of development experience, with Python as the primary language and strong experience in API and system integrations

- Proven experience integrating third-party APIs, with deep understanding of webhooks, callbacks, idempotency, and failure handling. Payments and KYC integrations are strong plus

- Experience with observability tools to monitor and troubleshoot production integrations

- Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures and concurrency

- Experience in architecture design of highly loaded and scalable solutions

- Strong understanding of the full software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis to deployment and production monitoring

Great to have

- Experience in early-stage startups and fast-paced engineering environments

- Experience in writing automated tests, measuring test coverage, and defining test automation strategies

- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, Grafana

- Experience in sports/betting industries