# Python Engineer (Backend Platform Engineer)

Introduction Looking for a Python Engineer (Backend Platform Engineer) Duties & Responsibilities About the Role We are seeking an experienced Python Engineer to join a fast-paced, technology-driven e-commerce organization. The successful candidate will be responsible for building highly scalable backend systems, APIs, data integrations, and microservices that support high-volume online retail operations, customer experiences, fulfilment, payments, and logistics platforms. You will work alongside Product Managers, Software Engineers, Data Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, and DevOps teams to deliver robust solutions capable of handling millions of transactions and customer interactions. Key Responsibilities Software Engineering Design and develop scalable backend applications using Python. Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices. Create high-performance services supporting order management, inventory, payments, customer experience, and logistics platforms. Develop reusable libraries and frameworks to accelerate product delivery. Produce clean, maintainable, and testable code. Distributed Systems Design solutions capable of handling high transaction v

- **Id**: 4164308
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/subhujo-technologies-python-engineer-backend-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sandton, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T09:55:09Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T09:55:09Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4262
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce

## Company

- **Id**: 4506103
- **Name**: Subhujo Technologies
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/subhujo-technologies>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **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
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **MS SQL** — 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
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T12:57:25Z

## 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**: 2026-11-12T19:36:18Z

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