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Lead Full-Stack Engineer - Python

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Posted on: 17-10-2025

Job description

Key responsibilities & Accountabilities Lead and oversee a team of engineers to ensure successful project delivery, from inception to deployment. Define technical requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives. Contribute to architectural decisions and technical designs. Coordinate with product owners and stakeholders to prioritize tasks and allocate resources. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members. Facilitate communication and collaboration within the team. Ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices performing code reviews and providing constructive feedback to peers Identify and address technical debt and architectural weaknesses. Evaluate and mitigate technical risks associated with projects, ensuring smooth progress and timely delivery. Champion quality focused software development, enforcing quality assurance standards, processes, testing methodologies, and driving initiatives to improve the development team efficiency (like automation, CI/CD) You are able to grasp, articulate, and advocate for technological solutions in both technical and non-technical settings and intelligently apply agile principles as you do so. You are able to interrogate and present data and data analysis and have a willingness to present results of analysis undertaken as a part of your team's work. You have demonstrable experience as a technical lead developer or engineer with a focus on Python. SQL (Postgres, SQL Server, Databricks) working without an ORM. familiar with the challenges of working with data at scale. prefer the command line use of git, bash/zsh, and (optionally) vim. An undergraduate degree or demonstrable knowledge and experience of concepts in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Logic, Applied Statistics, Actuarial Science, Data Science, or any related discipline would be advantageous.perience with distributed systems and microservices. Proficient in object-oriented programming using C sharp and dot net. Skilled in building web-based and asynchronous interfaces. Committed to test-driven development and team practices like pair programming. Knowledgeable in microservices and event-driven systems using Microsoft Azure tools. Familiar with modern frontend frameworks like Angular version two and above. Experienced in cloud-native development with Microsoft Azure. Comfortable with continuous integration and delivery using Azure DevOps and yaml. Experienced with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Skilled.

Qualification

  • Key responsibilities & Accountabilities
  • Lead and oversee a team of engineers to ensure successful project delivery, from inception to deployment.
  • Define technical requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and technical designs.
  • Coordinate with product owners and stakeholders to prioritize tasks and allocate resources.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.
  • Facilitate communication and collaboration within the team.
  • Ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices performing code reviews and providing constructive feedback to peers
  • Identify and address technical debt and architectural weaknesses.
  • Evaluate and mitigate technical risks associated with projects, ensuring smooth progress and timely delivery.
  • Champion quality focused software development, enforcing quality assurance standards, processes, testing methodologies, and driving initiatives to improve the development team efficiency (like automation, CI/CD)
  • You are able to grasp, articulate, and advocate for technological solutions in both technical and non-technical settings and intelligently apply agile principles as you do so.
  • You are able to interrogate and present data and data analysis and have a willingness to present results of analysis undertaken as a part of your team's work.
  • You have demonstrable experience as a technical lead developer or engineer with a focus on Python.
  • SQL (Postgres, SQL Server, Databricks)
  • working without an ORM.
  • familiar with the challenges of working with data at scale.
  • prefer the command line use of git, bash/zsh, and (optionally) vim.

    An undergraduate degree or demonstrable knowledge and experience of concepts in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Logic, Applied Statistics, Actuarial Science, Data Science, or any related discipline would be advantageous.perience with distributed systems and microservices. Proficient in object-oriented programming using C sharp and dot net. Skilled in building web-based and asynchronous interfaces. Committed to test-driven development and team practices like pair programming. Knowledgeable in microservices and event-driven systems using Microsoft Azure tools. Familiar with modern frontend frameworks like Angular version two and above. Experienced in cloud-native development with Microsoft Azure. Comfortable with continuous integration and delivery using Azure DevOps and yaml. Experienced with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Skilled in both SQL and non-SQL databases including Azure SQL and Cosmos database. Experienced in data modeling and optimization.

    Desirable Skills
  • Familiar with collaboration tools like Azure DevOps, Miro, and Confluence. Understanding of contract testing tools such as PACT. Knowledge of infrastructure automation using Terraform. Aware of secure coding practices and Open Web Application Security standards.

  • Knowledge and Experience
  • Over seven years of experience in backend development with a focus on scalable systems. Leadership in managing teams through full development lifecycles. Ability to make sound technical decisions. Skilled in setting technical standards and mentoring others. Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

 Key job details

Primary Location
Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Job Type
Experienced
Primary Skills
Confluence, Python, Communication
Years of Experience
7
Travel
No
Job Posting
17/10/2025

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