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We are seeking a Lead Python Engineer to build a next-generation AI-powered financial assistant platform, rapidly iterating on chat, reporting, and bespoke interfaces used in investment workflows. You will own end-to-end delivery in a small, highly capable team and help shape product direction.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of backend services for an AI-powered financial assistant
• Define system architecture that balances quality, latency, reliability, and cost for AI features




• Build production-grade APIs using Python and FastAPI with strong testing and observability
• Implement LLM-powered workflows with robust safeguards, validation, and failure handling
• Establish automated AI evaluations, test datasets, regression suites, and monitoring for model behavior
• Harden applications with security controls for sensitive data, auditing, and access management
• Collaborate with product and business users to refine requirements and ship iterative improvements
• Drive code quality through reviews, standards, and maintainable engineering practices
• Integrate AI-assisted programming and coding agents while critically validating generated code
• Troubleshoot production issues with disciplined incident response and root-cause analysis
• Guide technical decisions in a low-process environment and keep delivery momentum high

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software en

📌 Lead Python Engineer (México)
🏢 Epam Systems
📍 México