Senior Principal Python Engineer at KloudOpp Limited

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