Lead Python Engineer

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On behalf of our client, we are hiring a hands-on technical lead to own software architecture and delivery for manufacturing automation projects. We’re looking for a strong senior engineer who leads by example: writes production code, makes architectural decisions, and mentors engineers without stepping away from the keyboard.

What You’ll Do

• Own software architecture and technical delivery for automation projects.

• Write production-grade Python services and APIs (FastAPI or similar).

• Design service boundaries, APIs, data models, and communication patterns for distributed systems.

• Integrate software with robots, PLCs, industrial equipment, and external platforms.

• Work with message brokers, async processing, and real-time data flows.

• Review designs and code, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers.

• Improve reliability, observability, and performance of deployed systems.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong backend/distributed systems.

• Strong, hands-on Python – production code, not just architecture.

• FastAPI, Flask, or Django.

• Solid understanding of software architecture, API design, data modeling, distributed systems.

• Async programming, messaging, event-driven architectures.

• PostgreSQL/MongoDB and Redis or similar.

• Strong Docker and containerized deployment.

• Lead experience – formal or informal: ownership of significant projects, mentoring, architectural decisions.

• Comfort with ambiguous requirements and strong debugging across system boundaries.

• Git, testing discipline, CI/CD.

• Willingness to travel occasionally to customer sites in the US and Europe.

Nice to Have

Industrial automation, robotics, MES, hardware-integrated systems; PLC/robot/CNC/sensor integration; MQTT, gRPC, WebSockets; microservices; DevOps; mentoring.

Offer

• Competitive pay and additional health insurance.

• End-to-end ownership of significant automation projects.

• Software controlling real robotic and manufacturing systems.

• Small, highly technical team with visible impact.

• Influence over architecture, tooling, and engineering standards.

• Minimal bureaucracy.

• Fast-paced environment with accelerated growth.

• Close collaboration across software, robotics, controls, and manufacturing.

If you think this is the right challenge for you, please send us a recent CV in English. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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