Tech Lead - Python Engineering

Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence company. We deliver innovation and services that enable enterprises to operate sustainably, intelligently, and efficiently. Our platform, Aera Decision Cloud™, integrates with your existing systems to digitize, augment, and automate decisions in real time. Aera helps enterprises around the world transform decision making – delivering millions of recommendations that have resulted in significant revenue gains and cost savings for some of the world’s best-known brands. Privately-held and VC-funded, we have a global team of over 400 Aeranauts – and we’re growing. We deliver Decision Intelligence innovation and services that enable enterprises to automate and scale decision making with accuracy and speed. We continue to be the trusted choice of market leaders for our proven ability to generate value and unlock opportunities that were previously unattainable.  We are looking for a backend engineering leader (8–11 years) with expertise in Python-based microservices (FastAPI, Flask, Django), Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and GitOps (ArgoCD). The ideal candidate has a strong track record in architecting scalable, cloud-native, distributed systems with resilient service-to-service communication (REST, gRPC, Kafka, RabbitMQ), service meshes, and API gateways. They bring deep knowledge of databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching, and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK), along with proven leadership, mentoring, and delivery of secure, highly available systems. Bonus: Java/Go experience.