Our client is a U.S.-based company that provides technical expertise, testing, and certification services to the global food and agricultural industry. Their mission is to ensure food safety, quality, and sustainability across international supply chains.
To support their growing portfolio of customer-facing SaaS applications, they are expanding their engineering team and seeking experienced Python developers in Brazil. This is a fully remote position where you’ll collaborate directly with U.S. teams, contributing to products that make a global impact on the food industry.
As a Python Developer, you’ll work on designing and enhancing APIs and data-driven applications, mentor peers, and help shape solutions that improve how food safety and quality are measured worldwide.
Job Duties:
* Develop and refactor software features for customer-facing SaaS applications and APIs using Python and related technologies.
* Use Python and SQL to efficiently create and transform large datasets.
* Contribute as a hands-on developer while sometimes taking the lead in the technical design and solution.
* Collaborate daily with data scientists, food scientists, product owners, team members, API developers, architects and DevOps engineers.
* Implement appropriate testing methodologies to meet quality standards.
* Mentor other developers, both junior and senior, and share best practices.
* Contribute to the continuous improvement of our products, technology, and practices.
Required Qualifications:
* 5+ years’ of experience in Python-based application and API development, with strong Django/DRF or Flask expertise plus experience.
* Deep experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
* Experience with Redis and background workers (Celery/RQ).
* Solid understanding of RESTful API design standards and best practices and experience applying them in Python.
* Good communication skills and ability to discuss previous projects and how these technologies were applied and why.
* Team-first mindset, ability to work well as a group, share experiences and knowledge, mentor peers and improve processes.
* Knowledge of object-oriented patterns and how they are applied in Python application development.
* Excellent troubleshooting skills and instincts.
* Curious, self-motivated, and self-directed; comfortable working within an Agile software development team with short, iterative delivery cycles.
* College degree or equivalent experience in computer science, software development, engineering, information systems, math, food science, or other applicable field of study.
* Must be bilingual in English and Portuguese. The interview process will be conducted in both languages.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Angular experience for frontend (highly desirable and strong differentiator).
* Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker.
* Exposure to Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tooling.
* Proficient in Azure DevOps for source code and build pipeline management.
* Experience using Python to handle big datasets with packages such as Pandas, NumPy, PyArrow, etc.
* Base experience with Linux environment.
* Knowledge of AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch).