# Lead Python Engineer

📋 Role Overview We’re looking for a Lead Python Engineer to join our team and support one of our US-based clients — a CRM and data intelligence platform for private-market investors. You’ll run backend, data and AI as one function: lead a team of seven engineers who build the core platform, the data pipelines and the AI services, and set the technical direction for all three. You’ll report to the client’s VP of Engineering and work alongside the frontend, QA and DevOps leads. This is a hands-on leadership role — about half of your week will be technical work. This is a full-time, long-term engagement with working hours of approximately 14:00–23:00 Kyiv time to overlap with U.S. Eastern business hours. Occasional out-of-hours incidents come with the role. 🧙♂️In this role, you will Lead a team of seven backend, data and AI engineers across several time zones and own their planning, growth and delivery. Merge backend and AI into one team with a single planning process, cross-train both sides, make AI delivery visible alongside everything else and grow an owner for each area. Write design docs, make architecture calls, take on the hardest problems and take the first page when bac

- **Id**: 3986629
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ytc-lead-python-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: Ukraine
- **Countries**: UA
- **Hiring countries**: UA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T18:20:19Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T18:20:19Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5245
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Equity, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Custom Software Development

## Company

- **Id**: 4485835
- **Name**: YTC
- **Domain**: ytc.company
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ytc-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Django** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Great Expectations** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **Ukraine** — Iso: UA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T21:41:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T23:20:42Z

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