PythonAI Developer

We are

At Synechron we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechrons progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence Consulting Digital Cloud & DevOps Data and Software Engineering servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs we develop solutions for modernization from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models Digital Underwriting mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20 years our company has been honored with multiple employer awards recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about Synechron has a global workforce of 14500 and has 58 offices in 21 countries within key global markets.

Our challenge

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Python Developer to design and build high-performance backend systems intelligent services and AI-powered platform features. Candidate will work closely with data scientists platform engineers and product teams to develop services that power analytics workflow automation and agentic AI applications.

Additional Information*

The base salary for this position will vary based on geography and other accordance with law the base salary for this role if filled within Weehawken NJ is$140k - $145k/year & benefits (see below).

The Role

Responsibilities:

• Architect develop and maintain scalable Python services and microservices.
• Build REST and/or GraphQL APIs that interface with internal and external systems.
• Design reusable modules libraries and frameworks used across engineering teams.
• Ensure high performance reliability and fault-tolerance in production systems.
• Integrate backend services with LLM tools inference endpoints or retrieval systems.
• Build Python modules for Vector database queries Hybrid retrieval logic Document processing pipelines & Model orchestration.
• Optimize pipelines for latency throughput and cost efficiency.
• Agentic Systems & Automation (LangGraph / MCP optional).
• Build Python-based agent workflows using LangGraph for state-driven orchestration.
• Develop MCP tools to securely expose enterprise functionality to LLM agents.
• Design safe observable and governable tool-calling interfaces.
• Work with data scientists to productionize agent capabilities in real workflows.
• Design robust integrations with SQL/NoSQL databases event streams message queues.
• Build data ingestion and transformation services (ETL/ELT).
• Implement caching rate-limiting and retry logic for API-intensive workloads.
• Manage secrets credentials and secure transport of sensitive data.
• Write comprehensive unit integration and load tests.
• Participate in code reviews to uphold engineering excellence.
• Improve observability through metrics logging and distributed tracing.
• Automate CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI or Argo.

Requirements:

• 6 years of hands-on Python development experience.
• FastAPI Flask or Django.
• AsyncIO concurrency models multiprocessing.
• SQLAlchemy or ORM frameworks.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and system design.
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs WebSockets or event-driven systems.
• Proficiency with SQL databases and at least one NoSQL or vector/graph store.
• Experience working with distributed systems microservices or containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes).

Preferred but not required:

• AI & Agent Systems.
• Experience integrating Python services with LLM APIs (OpenAI Anthropic local models).
• Familiarity with RAG embeddings retrieval pipelines.
• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks like LangGraph CrewAI or MCP tooling.
• Data & Infrastructure.
• Kafka / PubSub / RabbitMQ.
• Redis / Memcached.
• Airflow or Prefect.
• Snowflake Databricks or Spark.
• Strong background in performance tuning and profiling.
• Ownership mindset with attention to quality and scalability.
• Effective communicator able to collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Strong debugging problem-solving and analytical thinking.

We offer:

• A highly competitive compensation and benefits package.
• A multinational organization with 58 offices in 21 countries and the possibility to work abroad.
• 10 days of paid annual leave (plus sick leave and national holidays).
• Maternity & paternity leave plans.
• A comprehensive insurance plan including medical dental vision life insurance and long-/short-term disability (plans vary by region).
• Retirement savings plans.
• A higher education certification policy.
• Commuter benefits (varies by region).
• Extensive training opportunities focused on skills substantive knowledge and personal development.
• On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses.
• Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups.
• Cutting edge projects at the worlds leading tier-one banks financial institutions and insurance firms.
• A flat and approachable organization.
• A truly diverse fun-loving and global work culture.

SYNECHRONS DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference is committed to fostering an inclusive culture promoting equality diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds race ethnicities religion age marital status gender sexual orientations or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements mentoring internal mobility learning and development programs and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to the applicants gender gender identity sexual orientation race ethnicity disabled or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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