Senior Python Developer

Lead Developer AI Python, Cloud

What Makes You a Strong Fit

Non-negotiable:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time in a lead role where you were still writing code daily
• Deep, hands-on Python experience Flask, Django, or FastAPI; comfortable owning backend architecture and API design end to end
• Solid experience with one or more major cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure or GCP also relevant)
• Proficiency across SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, MongoDB; Redis and ElasticSearch are a plus)
• Strong communication skills you can explain a technical decision to a non-technical founder and a senior engineer in the same conversation

Strong differentiators:

• Frontend architecture fluency — you don't need to be a frontend engineer, but you understand how modern frontends are structured, what React (or React Native or Flutter) can and can't do well, where the performance and integration constraints live, and how to make good full-stack decisions with that knowledge.

This will set you apart.

• Experience building AI agents or agentic systems (LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent)
• Working knowledge of LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, and LLMOps (LangFuse or similar)
• DevOps competence (CI/CD, cloud infrastructure management, deployment pipelines)
• Exposure to ML or data science in applied, production settings

About Us : Ignite Solutions is a product engineering firm that works as the embedded technology team for startups that don't want to - or can't - build one in-house. Our clients span insurtech, legal tech, fintech, healthtech, and AI SaaS. In practice, we provide fractional CTO leadership, solution architecture, product engineering, AI engineering, UX design, and DevOps — often all on the same engagement. We're a small, experienced team. You'll work on technically demanding problems with real client impact and meaningful autonomy. If you want to be handed a spec and told exactly what to build, this isn't the right place. If you want to help figure out what should be built, and then build it well, it is.