Chief Python Engineer

We are looking for a Chief Python Engineer to build a next-generation AI-powered financial assistant platform and need a highly autonomous senior engineer to shape architecture, quality, and delivery. You will work in a small, high-competence team to rapidly iterate on chat, reporting, and bespoke interfaces for client workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end architectures for an AI-powered financial assistant platform

• Build production-grade Python services and APIs using FastAPI

• Define evaluation strategies and test datasets to measure model quality and regressions

• Implement monitoring and failure analysis to detect and triage AI issues in production

• Establish security controls for sensitive data, access, and prompt-injection risks

• Optimize systems for quality, latency, reliability, and cost tradeoffs

• Partner with business users to gather requirements and validate solutions through rapid iteration

• Review, test, and validate AI-generated code from coding agents and assisted workflows

• Drive engineering standards for reliability, maintainability, and code quality

• Coordinate delivery in a low-formality environment with minimal process overhead

Requirements

• 7+ years of Python experience delivering production systems

• Senior leadership experience driving technical direction and mentoring engineers

• Strong system design skills for scalable, secure services

• Deep FastAPI experience or strong proficiency with equivalent Python frameworks

• Expert AI evaluation and quality engineering skills including automated evals and regression testing

• Advanced AI security knowledge including privacy, access control, and prompt-injection mitigations

• High autonomy and self-governance skills with loosely defined problem spaces

• Strong product judgment and edge-case thinking in fast-moving environments

• High quality standards for reliability, maintainability, and observability

• Advanced English proficiency (C1, Advanced)

Nice to have

• Amazon Web Services

• Kubernetes

• Terraform

• ReactJS

• Anthropic Claude Code

We offer

• International projects with top brands

• Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers

• Healthcare benefits

• Employee financial programs

• Paid time off and sick leave

• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses

• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses

• Global career opportunities

• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities

• EPAM Employee Groups

• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn