Python Web Developer

Location: Midtown NYC – ability to be onsite 3 days/week

Responsibilities
Own and enhance an existing Python web application, driving it toward enterprise-grade quality, reliability, and compliance. Serve as a technical lead for application hardening efforts, including architecture, security, and operational readiness.

Application Architecture & Codebase Ownership

• Assess the current Python application architecture and update to enterprise standards.
• Refactor and enhance code for maintainability, performance, and scalability.
• Establish clear design patterns, documentation, and development standards.

Security, Entitlements & Access Control

• Implement user entitlements and role-based access control models.
• Ensure secure authentication and authorization patterns aligned with enterprise identity standards.
• Collaborate with security teams to address findings, audits, and control requirements.

Regulatory & Enterprise Compliance

• Modify the application to conform to rigid regulatory and compliance standards (e.g., auditability, logging, access controls, data handling).
• Implement appropriate monitoring, logging, and traceability to support audits and operational oversight.
• Ensure the application meets expectations for enterprise deployment and support.

Operational Readiness & Delivery

• Improve reliability, error handling, and observability.

• Support deployment, environment readiness, and handoff to production support teams.
• Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience developing web applications in Python.
• Proven experience with Dash (or similar Python web frameworks).
• Experience implementing user entitlements, role-based access control, and authorization models.
• Experience deploying or supporting applications in Microsoft Azure (e.g., App Services, Azure Functions, Azure AD, storage, or monitoring).
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Exposure to cloud-based CI/CD pipelines and enterprise DevOps practices.
• Prior collaboration with security, risk, or compliance teams.
• Demonstrated success taking an existing application and hardening it for enterprise or regulated environments.
• Familiarity with regulatory-driven requirements such as audit logging, access controls, and secure data handling.
• Ability to assess an existing codebase quickly and make pragmatic improvements.
• Comfortable operating independently and taking full ownership of outcomes.