Python Engineer - GP

Gorilla Logic provides nearshore Agile teams to Fortune 500 and SMB companies, bringing unparalleled expertise in the delivery of full-stack web, mobile, and enterprise applications. Our highly collaborative Agile Gorillas are uniquely qualified to implement complex software initiatives. With offices in the United States, Costa Rica, Colombia and Mexico, Gorilla Logic helps clients gain competitive advantages to achieve results faster.

Mid Backend Python Engineer

Gorilla Logic is looking for a Mid level Backend Python Engineer. This is a unique and highly technical role responsible for server-side web application logic as well as integration of the front-end development, requiring outstanding programming skills and a passion for developing applications. Our environment will require you to work effectively with your teammates, of course. But your real success will be measured by how well you couple critical thinking with self-motivation, enthusiasm and determination.

Responsibilities

*Participate in setting and maintaining team coding standards.

*Conduct and engage in peer code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices.

*Manage and prioritize individual tasks effectively, balancing feature development with technical debt resolution and system stability.

*Act as a technical contributor in discussions with stakeholders, product managers, and cross-functional teams.

*Clarify technical requirements and provide input during planning sessions.

*Address ambiguous technical issues with structured problem-solving approaches.

*Escalate complex challenges appropriately to senior engineers or technical leads.

*Proactively contribute ideas to improve codebase quality, system performance, and team workflows.

Technical Requirements

*Proficient in Python, with experience in writing production-quality code.

*Solid deep understanding and experience building, maintaining, and interacting with web services, i.e. REST APIs.

*Experience with web scraping, i.e. retrieving and interacting with sites programmatically with headless browser automation tools (e.g., Browserless, Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium).

*Experience working with multiple data providers and handling API differences and inconsistencies.

*Familiarity with caching services like Redis, KV stores

*Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.

*Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana).

*Familiarity with asynchronous programming, i.e. async/await, threads.

*Familiarity with unit testing with Pytest

Nice to have

*Familiarity with cloud and virtualized environments such as lambdas, functions, workers, ec2 instances, docker containers, and kubernetes objects.

*Familiarity interacting with GraphQL api’s, writing queries

*Familiarity with ElasticSearch

*Familiarity with RabitMQ queue systems

*Familiarity with Proxy pass requests

*Proficient in web scraping, having successfully completed multiple projects that involved extracting and manipulating data from websites.

*Strong proficiency with Javascript, Frontend development, DOM Manipulation, and frameworks like React.

*Proficient in reverse engineering web services: This includes analyzing and understanding the inner workings of web-based APIs and applications, often without access to source code or documentation.

*This skill might involve using tools like network sniffers, decompilers, and debuggers to intercept and examine network traffic, dissect code, and identify vulnerabilities or potential areas for improvement.