Python Developer

Q1 Technologies, Inc

Phoenix, AZ
7 days ago

Highlights

DESIRABLE_SKILLS Strong ownership and stakeholder management; ability to work across Product, Architecture, AI/ML, Data, Security and DevOps teams; clear technical communication; mentoring and code-review capability; analytical problem solving; Agile delivery; focus on reliability, security, scalability and maintainability. Develop LangChain/LangGraph-based agent workflows and reusable agent-runtime capabilities including tool calling, state management, retries, validation, guardrails and human approval where required.

Numbers & Facts

Location	Phoenix, AZ
Industry	Computer/IT Services
Company Size	500 to 999 employees
Year Founded	1990
Website	http://q1tech.com/

Description

Hi,
Hope you are doing well.

I have an urgent opening for Python Developer position. Kindly review the job description below and if interested, share your most recent resume in word format.

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Job Title: Python Developer
Location: Phoenix, AZ (Onsite) - Locals Only
Job Type: Contract

Job Description:
Knowledge Base & AI Platform Engineering

Design, develop, maintain and evolve enterprise knowledge-base infrastructure and AI-enabled backend services using Python and FastAPI.
Build and optimize ingestion, chunking, embedding, vector indexing, semantic retrieval, reranking, context construction and grounded RAG pipelines.
Develop LangChain/LangGraph-based agent workflows and reusable agent-runtime capabilities including tool calling, state management, retries, validation, guardrails and human approval where required.
Integrate LLMs and enterprise knowledge sources securely through reusable APIs and services.
Implement PostgreSQL/vector database persistence, metadata filtering and retrieval patterns optimized for accuracy, latency and scale.

Cloud-Native Delivery & Production Engineering

Containerize services with Docker and deploy/manage them on Kubernetes.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins or equivalent tools, including automated testing and deployment controls.
Implement logging, tracing, metrics, dashboards and alerts using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana and enterprise monitoring tools.
Diagnose and resolve issues across APIs, retrieval pipelines, agent execution, databases, containers and distributed infrastructure.
Improve performance, reliability, security, scalability and cost efficiency of production AI services.

Quality, Evaluation & Collaboration

Establish automated tests and evaluation approaches for APIs, retrieval quality, grounded responses and agent behavior.
Apply secure coding, access controls, audit logging, prompt/output validation and responsible-AI practices

SKILLS_REQUIRED
Python & API Engineering

Strong hands-on experience with Python 3.11+ and production backend development.
Strong experience building secure, scalable REST APIs and microservices using FastAPI; familiarity with Flask/Django is useful.
Strong understanding of asynchronous Python, API design, validation, error handling, authentication/authorization, and enterprise integration patterns.

Generative AI, RAG & Knowledge Infrastructure

Hands-on experience building enterprise Generative AI applications using LLMs, RAG, semantic search, embeddings, and vector databases.
Strong experience with LangChain and LangGraph for agentic workflows, stateful orchestration, tool calling, multi-step execution, and controlled agent runtimes.
Experience designing knowledge ingestion, document chunking, embedding generation, metadata enrichment, retrieval/reranking, context assembly, grounded generation, and response validation pipelines.
Experience with PostgreSQL and vector search; pgvector experience is highly desirable.
Strong understanding of prompt engineering, AI agents, guardrails, human-in-the-loop patterns, AI evaluation, responsible AI, and secure enterprise data access.
Platform Engineering, DevOps & Observability
Strong hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for production AI services.
Experience with Git, GitHub Actions/Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test and deployment.
Experience with production monitoring and observability using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk/ELK or equivalent tools.
Ability to troubleshoot performance, reliability, retrieval quality, API, infrastructure, and production issues across distributed AI systems.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation and cross-functional communication skills.

DESIRABLE_SKILLS

Strong ownership and stakeholder management; ability to work across Product, Architecture, AI/ML, Data, Security and DevOps teams; clear technical communication; mentoring and code-review capability; analytical problem solving; Agile delivery; focus on reliability, security, scalability and maintainability.
EXPERIENCE_RANGE_IN_REQUIRED_SKILLS - 5-6 Years

Thanks & Regards,

Sumit Chauhan | Sr. Technical Recruiter
Tel: +1 630-536-8202 Ext. 5561 | Direct: 630-937-0261
sumit.chauhan@q1tech.com | www.q1tech.com |
Over 23 Years of Innovation and Excellence in Delivery of IT Services
Chicago, IL

About Company

Q1 consists of experienced and recognized experts providing the capability to respond to market demand in order to provide professional services for our clients including Enterprise software implementations, application integration and technical / functional support.

Q1 has steadily grown into a Quality IT services and solutions organization with the average experience of our team being over 10 years. We have continuously met or exceeded client expectations by delivering professional services and project implementations on time and under budget to help clients truly recognize return on investment.