Lead Python Engineer

Top 3 reasons to join us

• Build a professional & fun working environment
• Focus on your growth, yes the long-term growth.
• Develop the future-ready digital bank platform.

Job description

Itviec’s client is seeking to join our Service Operations team, with a strong focus on Python development, automation, scripting, technical leadership, and DevOps practices.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, maintenance, and enhancement of Python-based applications, automation tools, scripts, and utilities.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers, including code reviews, solution design, troubleshooting, and best-practice adoption.
• Design and implement automation scripts to support testing, monitoring, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Build and maintain automation test scripts using Python and related frameworks.
• Support backend service development, API integration, and internal tooling using Python.
• Collaborate with development, QA, DevOps, and operations teams to define technical approaches and ensure effective delivery.
• Drive improvements in code quality, maintainability, reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Integrate automated scripts and tools into CI/CD pipelines, such as GitHub Actions or similar platforms.
• Support DevOps-related activities, including build, deployment, release automation, and environment configuration.
• Work with containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and DevOps teams to support deployment and operations in cloud-native environments.
• Troubleshoot application, automation, and deployment issues across development, test, and production-like environments.
• Contribute to technical documentation, coding standards, automation guidelines, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support team planning, task breakdown, technical estimation, and delivery coordination in Agile/DevOps environments.
• Mentor and coach team members, helping them grow their technical capabilities and follow engineering best practices.

Your skills and experience

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Python development, with at least 1–2 years in a technical lead, senior engineer, or similar leadership role.
• Strong Python coding capability, including scripting, automation, backend development, and API integration.
• Experience leading technical discussions, reviewing code, guiding solution design, and supporting engineering teams.
• Experience in automation testing or test script development using Python.
• Good understanding of software engineering practices, clean code, debugging, maintainability, and performance optimization.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Linux environments and shell scripting.
• Experience working with REST APIs and service integration.
• Good understanding of cloud-native application environments.
• Experience working in Agile/DevOps teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with development, QA, DevOps, operations, and infrastructure teams.
• Ability to mentor engineers, coordinate technical work, and support delivery across cross-functional teams.

Why you'll love working here

Our client is an AI-centric global digital transformation company. We design advanced data and AI transformation solutions, modernize technology architectures and develop next-generation core systems for industry leaders in Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing and Robotics

HR benefits

• Competitive salary
• Salary band per level are reviewed once per year
• 13th month salary pro rata depending on the employee’s length of service (within a calender year), paid with the December salary
• Monthly lunch allowance: 700,000 VND/employee
• Parking: covers the monthly parking fee for employee motorbikes

Health care

• Private health insurance: including accident, outpatient, in-patient, maternity, and dental for all permanent employees who pass 2-month probation.
• Optical: expense claim for eyewear
• Annual health check-ups.

Vacation

• Maximum 18-day vacation leave/year (with the ability to carry over 05 days till 31st March of the following year)
• Adding one more annual leave day for each two-year anniversary.

Healthy lifestyle

• Sports and hobby clubs: company has an annual fund for fitness activities, which is allocated per month as team’s vote.
• Range of healthy snacks, tea, coffee, milk and beer on tap