Python Engineer

Contiamo is a premier consulting firm that brings together an interdisciplinary team of experts in data science, data engineering, mathematics, business consulting, and change management. Our extensive experience allows us to deliver high-quality data solutions, seamlessly integrating deep business know-how.

We collaborate with industry leaders such as Mercedes Benz, CBRE, and Deutsche Telekom to tackle their most pressing business challenges through intelligent data usage. As a trusted partner, we pride ourselves on delivering scalable cloud applications and leveraging open-source tools to find elegant solutions to complex problems.

At Contiamo, our culture thrives on fast iterations and a high-trust environment where everyone is given significant responsibility. We believe in the power of a supportive atmosphere, valuing both individual contributions and the joy of teamwork.

Our projects span a wide range of exciting data use-cases, including:

• Generative AI
• Data and AI strategy
• Data architecture and cloud data warehouse setup
• Building data-intensive applications and algorithms
• Advanced data science and machine learning

As a Python Engineer at Contiamo, your focus is on implementing technical designs and thinking about how components work together while building technical and leadership skills within a learning-focused environment. You'll shape projects by doing the following:

• →Deliver Robust, High-Quality Solutions: Leverage web technologies, build APIs, work with relational databases, and implement event-driven systems (streams/queues) to create reliable, maintainable software.
• →Leverage Best Practices: Apply learnings of engineering best practices, code quality, and maintainability.
• →Collaborate with Engineering and Data Teams: Work closely with data science and AI teams to deploy Generative AI and ML-based applications.
• →Broaden Technical Leadership Skills: Drive the implementation of project components while supporting other projects through code review, design discussions, and technical spikes.
• →Share Knowledge and Foster Collaboration: Actively participate in company show and tell and engineering sync sessions to share your ideas and recent learnings.
• →Document Solutions: Maintain comprehensive, clear, and well-structured documentation that equips clients and team members to understand and manage their solutions.
• →Engage with Clients: Join client calls or technical workshops to help answer questions and provide technical input.

You've worked in technology long enough to begin approaching development from a systems perspective. You can be an independent problem solver and collaborate effectively with your team. While you may not have mastered everything detailed below, you possess a majority of the following skills:

• Self-driven and curious, with a proactive approach to learning, improvement, and solving problems.
• Good communicator. You know that communicating with engineers, product, business, or finance will look different.
• Demonstrated commitment to quality, and are learning how to better balance speed and reliability.
• Desire to work across the entire spectrum of application development and data engineering from micro apps, distributed systems and streaming data, to data warehousing.
• Advocate for strong typing, type hints, and schema documentation (e.g. OpenAPI). Whatever it takes to have a strong data contract within and between applications.
• Proficient in Python with experience building, debugging, and optimizing APIs, and/or data pipelines.
• Experience with modern technologies and frameworks including FastAPI, PydanticAI, LangChain, OpenTelemetry, Procrastinate, databases like Postgres and Snowflake, queue systems such as SQS / Kafka, and Airflow.
• A commitment to DevOps principles, you care how applications get deployed (e.g., CI/CD, Kubernetes, containerization), and how it impacts application lifecycle.
• Currently in Berlin or willing to relocate. You must have or can obtain an EU work visa.

• Screening call (round 0, length: 30)
• Experience assessment call (round 1; length: 45-60)
• Technical assessment (round 2; length: 60)
• Meet the Team / Communication assessment (round: 3; length: 90-120; in-person preferred)
• Optional: Meet the Partners (round: 4; length: 45 - 60; in-person preferred)

Salary Range: 60,000€ - 80,000€