• 7+ years of experience in building server side applications
• Strong experience as a decision maker and leader for infrastructure design
• Strong experience with Python 3.9 or higher
• Strong experience designing scalable architectures servicing 1000s of users simultaneously
• Strong experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience designing and maintaining relational databases using best practices, PostgreSQL preferred
• 2+ years experience working with AWS cloud
• Experience with optimizing high demand services using caching tools like Redis and DynamoDB
• Proven experience in working on a small to medium size team of engineers, content managers, project managers, and QA
• Understanding how to use GIT for source control management

Desirable

• Seeking a Senior Python Engineer to join our platform team designing and implementing infrastructure supporting the Topps Digital Collectibles sports and entertainment products
• This position will be dedicated to building a best in class, next generation collectible APIs and other data processing tools, while working on and maintaining existing products with the existing engineering team
• Major contributor in collecting requirements, planning, architecting, and developing next generation of our mobile APIs
• Provide expert technical support to other team members as needed across the Fanatics/Topps Collectibles division, including back-end engineers, front-end engineers, testers, product managers, project managers, contractors, and content producers
• Develop a best-in-class microservice architecture utilizing synchronous and asynchronous technologies
• Assist with coordinating the effort of other engineers and team members for projects related to the API and systems that interact with it
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity
• Communicate and work directly with Project Managers and Content Managers to understand their needs and transform those into a cohesive and unified product
• Implementing unit and integration tests in a test-driven development mindset
• Generate documentation about architecture, interactions and behaviors with REST APIs or any other mechanism to process data