Python Automation Engineer & Moodle Integration

Job Description Python Automation Engineer & Moodle Integration

Role summary

We are hiring a Python Automation Engineer to take ownership of an existing, working pipeline, stabilising and hardening it and extending it.

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Detail

Alternative titles for posting

Python Developer (Document Automation); EdTech Content Pipeline Engineer; Moodle Integration Developer

Employment type

Full-time (open to a 6-month contract-to-hire)

Experience

0.5 - 2 years of hands-on Python, with at least one document- or data-conversion project

Reports to

Technology / Product lead (to be confirmed)

Location

Noida ( Sector 37- Noida) UP

Works with

Academic content team - Moodle/LMS Developer & administrators.

Key responsibilities

These are drawn directly from the work performed over the last six months, grouped by area. Roughly 70% of the role is running and improving the existing pipeline; 30% is new development from the roadmap.

1. Pipeline operation and ownership

2. Word document parsing and standardisation

3. Validation and quality checking

4. Conversion: Pandoc, Lua and Moodle XML

5. Equations and media

6. Debugging and root-cause analysis

7. Engineering hygiene and documentation

8. Roadmap development (as prioritised)

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 0.5 – 5 years of professional Python development, including at least one document-conversion, ETL or data-transformation project.
• A portfolio, GitHub link or work sample showing document or data processing is strongly preferred.
• Comfortable working on Windows (current environment); Linux familiarity is a plus.

Preferred skills and behavioural competencies

These separate a strong candidate from an adequate one and support the roadmap.

Preferred technical skills

• XML and data validation libraries: lxml, xmlschema, pydantic, jsonschema.
• Testing: pytest, Hypothesis, coverage.py; CI with GitHub Actions or similar.
• Maths content: LaTeX, MathML, OMML (Word equations), MathJax rendering in Moodle; sympy or latex2mathml exposure.
• Other DOCX tooling: mammoth, docx2python; image tools such as Pillow and python-magic.
• Web and deployment: FastAPI or Flask, basic React/HTML/JS, Docker, SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL).
• Moodle Web Services / REST APIs and LMS administration.
• Prior work in EdTech, assessment platforms or publishing workflows.

Behavioural competencies

• Attention to detail: treats a wrong answer key or a missing image as a defect, and checks the imported result rather than assuming a generated file is correct.
• Ownership: takes over an inherited codebase without needing it rewritten first; leaves it better documented than found.
• Structured problem-solving: isolates which stage of a pipeline caused a failure before changing code.
• Clear communication with non-technical users: explains source-document problems to content staff in plain terms.
• Pragmatism: introduces databases, queues or web interfaces only when volume or users justify them.
• Documentation discipline: keeps run-books, defect logs and change notes current as part of the job, not after it.