Python Developer with AWS

Job Title: Sr. AWS Python Developer
Location: New York, NY 
Work Mode: Onsite (5 days a week) 

Contract
Required Skills: AWS, Python, Media & Entertainment domain experience is required.

Job Description:

The Software Developer will work on our clients team that's developing their next generation cloud-based content distribution pipeline in AWS that is being used to distribute media files to partners worldwide. The role will be engaged end-to-end from understanding product goals and roadmaps through to solution design architecture build integration deployment and support. They will be responsible for the full SDLC of a software product that provides transformation of media files and content distribution services to its clients through a well-defined single point of integration for leveraging the clients globally distributed media storage and transcoding capabilities

Responsibilities
Develop and maintain highly scalable high performance and highly available systems Write well tested efficient and readable code The code should also be strongly structured with a view to reusability Ensure that all deliverables follow best practices around source control CICD Manage individual project priorities deadlines and deliverables Ensure that solutions are in line with the other deliverables of the team and produce documentation so that others learn from and contribute to the work Attend and contribute to meetings complete tasks as assigned by supervisor

To be successful in this role the right software developer will have.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or equivalent experience 5 years writing production code in Python. 
Familiarity with C a plus53 years production experience with AWS Certifications a big plus Proficiency in designing and interacting with NoSQL databases DynamoDB. 
Experience with relational databases MSSQL PostgreSQL a plus. 
Proficiency building serverless systems with ephemeral compute eg AWS Lambda ECS and orchestration eg AWS Step Functions. 
Proficiency building event driven architectures with message queues topics. 
Proficiency identifying applicability of design patterns and implementing them Proficiency using AI assisted coding tools and agents such as Cursor Claude Code or CoPilot Solid understanding of source control git unit testing test driven development CICD Knowledge of defining packaging and deploying cloud resources in CDK strongly preferred Knowledge of deploying and managing services in Kubernetes is strongly preferred Knowledge of building AI apps on platforms such as BedrockVertex AI/Azure AI and familiarity with frameworks and tools such as Lang Chain vector databases PyTorch Tensor Flow is strongly preferred Familiarity with the agile process stand ups planning estimating and demoing. 
Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
Experience with media file container formats media/video engineering a plus

Skills

Mandatory Skills : AWS API Gateway, AWS Cloud Architecture, Python