Remote Python Engineer — Open Source Tools (Contract)

YO IT Consulting; Abu Dhabi Emirate; On-site; AED 18,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

YO IT Consulting is seeking an experienced Python Software Engineer for Open Source Tools on a remote contract. Based in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates, you will enhance open-source repositories by delivering tested Python code, fixing defects, and expanding developer documentation.

The role requires strong Python expertise, familiarity with distributed systems, and hands-on participation in peer reviews and community-style collaboration.

Qualifications

• Substantial professional Python experience with open-source collaboration.
• Experience with distributed systems and large repositories.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, testing, debugging, profiling, and Git-based development.

Responsibilities

• Review open issues, project requirements, and repository contribution guidelines.
• Explore unfamiliar Python codebases and map important modules and dependencies.
• Propose implementation approaches that fit existing architectural patterns.
• Develop reliable features, libraries, integrations, and command-line tools.
• Apply appropriate algorithms and data structures to solve defined problems.
• Create clear interfaces that remain stable for other contributors.
• Reproduce reported defects through controlled examples and automated tests.
• Use logs, stack traces, debugging tools, and runtime behaviour to locate root causes.
• Resolve logical errors, data-handling issues, integration failures, and compatibility defects.
• Profile slow code and optimize only where measurable evidence identifies a bottleneck.
• Refactor difficult modules to improve separation of concerns and maintainability.
• Preserve expected behaviour while modernizing older implementations.
• Add unit tests, integration tests, fixtures, and regression coverage.
• Verify packaging, dependency, linting, and test requirements before submission.
• Prepare focused pull requests explaining the issue, solution, and validation performed.
• Work with maintainers to address questions and refine proposed changes.
• Review peer submissions for correctness, clarity, efficiency, security, and test quality.
• Contribute thoughtfully to design discussions and project-wide engineering decisions.
• Update API documentation, usage examples, installation instructions, and contributor guides.
• Follow repository licensing, governance, security, and version-control requirements.

Skills

Python

Open-source software

Python package development

Algorithm implementation

Data structures

API and library design

Distributed codebases

Complex debugging

Stack-trace analysis

Performance profiling

Code optimization

Software refactoring

Unit testing

Integration testing

Regression coverage

Dependency management

Git

Pull-request workflows

Peer code review

Developer documentation

C

Java

Go

TypeScript

Rust

Tools

Git

Job description

YO IT Consulting is seeking an experienced Python Software Engineer for Open Source Tools on a remote contract. Based in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates, you will enhance open-source repositories by delivering tested Python code, fixing defects, and expanding developer documentation.

The role requires strong Python expertise, familiarity with distributed systems, and hands-on participation in peer reviews and community-style collaboration.