Python Developer

Recruiter:

The Legends Agency

Job Ref:

939RX986

Date posted:

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

Salary:

Market-Related

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

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