## Title: Senior Principal Python Engineer

About the Role

KloudOpp Limited is hiring a world-class Senior Principal Python Engineer with deep expertise across the full Python ecosystem—including Python 2.7, Python 3.6 through 3.12, modern async frameworks, distributed computing tools, and advanced backend architecture.

This role requires an engineering leader who has architected and delivered cloud-native microservices, secure enterprise platforms, complex business-logic–driven systems, and data-intensive solutions across FinTech, HealthTech, Logistics, and Blockchain environments.

The ideal candidate is hands-on, experienced with live production systems, and highly skilled in teaching, mentoring, and communicating architecture decisions. This position offers a great opportunity for career growth.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Engineering

Architect and implement enterprise-grade microservices using Python (async and sync)
Design secure, scalable modern monolithic systems when domain cohesion is required
Apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event-Driven Architecture, Clean Architecture, and distributed system patterns
Build systems with advanced Python capabilities including concurrency, parallelism, multiprocessing, async IO, and event loops

Backend Frameworks & Services

Mastery in at least one of the following:

Django / Django REST Framework
FastAPI
Flask
Tornado
AIOHTTP
PyTorch, TensorFlow (optional but valuable for ML-heavy roles)
Celery / RQ / Dramatiq for distributed tasks

Cloud, Infrastructure & DevOps

Build and deploy Python services on AWS, Azure, or GCP
Implement CI/CD, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform / Helm)
Ensure observability with logs, metrics, tracing, and incident response best practices

Data Engineering & Storage

Work hands-on with SQL and NoSQL systems

Requirements

Security background check
Rigorous technical assessment
GitHub repositories demonstrating real engineering work

Location

Lagos, Nigeria

Senior Principal Python Engineer at KloudOpp Limited

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