Python Developer

SUMMARY:
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.

POSITION INFO:

• • 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