Python Developer

Python Developer

Cape Town | R50 000 - R70 000

About Our Client

Our client is a fast-growing technology company transforming the healthcare space by connecting patients, providers, and partners through seamless digital platforms. With a mission to simplify healthcare access, they focus on building scalable, secure, and user-friendly systems that handle high traffic and sensitive data. They operate with a collaborative, product-driven culture where engineers take ownership and directly impact real-world patient experiences. Their environment encourages innovation, continuous learning, and applying best practices in engineering and data security.

The Role : Python Developer

You will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying back-end services that power critical functions such as bookings, payments, notifications, and integrations with healthcare partners. The role requires end-to-end ownership of services across the full SDLC, ensuring reliability, scalability, and compliance with security and privacy standards.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build and deploy Python back-end services for bookings, search, payments, and notifications

Own services across the full SDLC : architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, observability

Integrate with external partners including practice-management systems, pharmacy / insurer platforms, and communications providers

Optimise performance and reliability for high-traffic flows

Write robust automated tests, participate in code reviews, and support continuous delivery

Ensure compliance with POPIA and data security best practices

Contribute to technical design, documentation, and engineering standards

Troubleshoot production issues and participate in on-call rotations

About You

3-6+ years of professional experience building production web services with Python

Strong experience with Django or Flask

Solid database knowledge including schema design, migrations, and performance tuning

Skilled at designing and consuming APIs with understanding of idempotency, pagination, and versioning

Hands-on with cloud-native deployment (AWS preferred) and containerisation (Docker)

Strong focus on security (authN / authZ, secrets management, data privacy)

Familiar with monitoring, logging, and performance profiling tools

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, thrives in an agile environment

Nice to have : experience in healthcare, fintech, or high-volume transactional systems; exposure to event-driven architectures, front-end (React / TypeScript), or observability tools