Chief Python Engineer

EPAM·Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil·Удалённо·вчера

We are looking for a Chief Python Engineer to build a next-generation AI-powered financial assistant platform and need a highly autonomous senior engineer to shape architecture, quality, and delivery. You will work in a small, high-competence team to rapidly iterate on chat, reporting, and bespoke interfaces for client workflows.

Responsibilities

Design end-to-end architectures for an AI-powered financial assistant platform
Build production-grade Python services and APIs using FastAPI
Define evaluation strategies and test datasets to measure model quality and regressions
Implement monitoring and failure analysis to detect and triage AI issues in production
Establish security controls for sensitive data, access, and prompt-injection risks
Optimize systems for quality, latency, reliability, and cost tradeoffs
Partner with business users to gather requirements and validate solutions through rapid iteration
Review, test, and validate AI-generated code from coding agents and assisted workflows
Drive engineering standards for reliability, maintainability, and code quality
Coordinate delivery in a low-formality environment with minimal process overhead

Requirements

7+ years of Python experience delivering production systems
Senior leadership experience driving technical direction and mentoring engineers
Strong system design skills for scalable, secure services
Deep FastAPI experience or strong proficiency with equivalent Python frameworks
Expert AI evaluation and quality engineering skills including automated evals and regression testing
Advanced AI security knowledge including privacy, access control, and prompt-injection mitigations
High autonomy and self-governance skills with loosely defined problem spaces
Strong product judgment and edge-case thinking in fast-moving environments
High quality standards for reliability, maintainability, and observability
Advanced English proficiency (C1, Advanced)