# Python Engineer / Backend Platform Engineer

Introduction We are looking for experienced Python Engineers (Backend Platform Engineers) to design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend applications, APIs, and microservices for a large-scale e-commerce organization. The role involves building robust backend platforms that support high-volume online retail operations, including order management, inventory, payments, customer experience, fulfilment, and logistics. Candidates should have strong commercial experience in Python development, REST API development, microservices architecture, databases, cloud platforms, and containerization technologies. The ideal candidate will have experience building enterprise-grade backend systems, working with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native environments while ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability. Duties & Responsibilities Python Backend Development Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Python. Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices using FastAPI, Flask, and Django. Develop reusable libraries, frameworks, and components. Write clean, maintainable, efficient, and testable cod

- **Id**: 4263526
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/samaha-consulting-python-engineer-backend-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Johannesburg, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T14:05:27Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T14:05:27Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4523
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Staffing & Staff Augmentation

## Company

- **Id**: 4496133
- **Name**: Samaha Consulting
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/samaha-consulting>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: staffing
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **Django** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Flask** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **New Relic** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T16:01:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T18:07:31Z

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