Jobs Odesa, Python

Your Project

Our client specializes in building and operating the online infrastructure that powers multiplayer experiences for some of the world’s most popular video games. They design and manage backend services that handle everything from player authentication and matchmaking to leaderboards and in-game transactions. Their technology ensures that millions of players can connect, compete, and interact seamlessly across platforms. By focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance, they enable game studios to deliver rich, engaging online features without compromising quality or stability.
The team you’ll join is responsible for the database platform for the company. They provide the technology to other internal teams to configure and deploy their services & game titles; maintain and upgrade database technologies; ensure stability and scalability across systems. We are looking for a person with excellent Python programming background, hands on experience working in k8s environment and proficient with the database technologies.

Your Role

• Develop, maintain and evolve the database platform and adapt it for cloud technologies
• Ensure high scalability and maintainability of the components
• Contribute to and review designs and code from other team members
• Perform testing and provide tooling to maintain up-to-date systems.
• Collaborate across teams to remediate database issues.
• Support migration from VMs to Kubernetes.

Your Profile

• At least 6-7 years of Python development experience.
• Understanding of REST APIs.
• Strong experience with MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.
• Experience with Docker.
• Experience with cloud services.
• Familiarity with Vitess and/or Redis, or similar.
• Continuous integration and agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication and self-management skills

• At least Upper-Intermediate English level.

Would be a plus

• Previous experience designing and building tooling for use by other engineers.
• Experience with Kubernetes highly desirable.
• Experience with game development or game engines
• Experience with large scale services (up to millions of concurrent users)
• Experience with Azure or GCP

Additional Notes
• Strong Python developer experience is critical.
• Collaboration and adaptability are key for cross-team work.

Client

Our client is the world’s leading music company, committed to artistry, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Position overview

We are looking for a Senior Python Developer with strong expertise in Django and AWS to join our Release Products team. This role offers high autonomy and ownership, requiring you to design, build, and maintain production-ready backend services while contributing to infrastructure and CI/CD improvements.

You will work closely with a senior engineering team, taking responsibility for the production system and ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance. Ideal candidates are T-shaped engineers who thrive in fast-paced environments, can make independent technical decisions, and have hands-on experience with modern cloud and container technologies.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Django backend services
• Own features end-to-end
• Contribute to infrastructure and CI/CD where applicable
• Work directly with a senior engineering team with minimal oversight
• Take responsibility for the production system, including troubleshooting and operational ownership

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional engineering experience
• Experience as a senior or lead-level contributor
• Production Django experience (not just Python)
• Strong in API design, data modeling, and performance optimization
• AWS expertise, including hands-on experience with EKS (not just theoretical Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Ability to troubleshoot production issues and ensure system stability
• Comfortable operating with high autonomy and making technical decisions independently
• Ability to ramp up quickly in existing production systems
• Strong communication skills and proactive approach
• T-shaped engineer (deep in one area, strong in another)
• Experience across backend + frontend or backend + infrastructure
• Used to working with experienced teams and minimal process