Python developer

Job Description

Key Responsibilities Build and maintain backend services in Python, writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. Develop and scale public APIs, ensuring high performance and reliability. Work with GraphQL services, contributing to schema design and implementation of queries, mutations, and resolvers. Collaborate cross-functionally with frontend, product, and DevOps teams to ship features end-to-end. Containerize services using Docker and support deployments within Kubernetes environments. Use GitHub Actions to manage CI/CD workflows, including test automation and deployment pipelines. Participate in code reviews, standups, and planning sessions as part of an agile development process. Take ownership of features and deliverables with guidance from senior engineers. Required Skills Python expertise: Strong grasp of idiomatic Python, async patterns, type annotations, unit testing, and modern libraries. API development: Experience building and scaling RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs in production. GraphQL proficiency: Familiarity with frameworks like Strawberry, Graphene, or similar. Containerization: Hands-on experience with Docker and container-based development workflows. GitHub Actions CI/CD: Working knowledge of GitHub Actions for automating tests and deployments. Team collaboration: Effective communicator with a proactive, self-directed work style. Preferred Qualifications Kubernetes: Experience deploying or troubleshooting applications in Kubernetes environments. AWS: Familiarity with AWS services such as ECS, EKS, S3, RDS, or Lambda. Healthcare: Background in the healthcare industry or building patient-facing applications. Monitoring and security: Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus) and secure coding practices About Virtusa Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us. Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence. Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.