Senior Python & Data Platform Engineer - Remote

Eliassen Group; Lincoln (NE); Remote; USD 102,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Senior Python Developer role with Eliassen Group. Remote, contract position building and operating components of a SaaS risk and compliance AI platform. You will work primarily in Python on Linux, leverage AWS services, and contribute to modernization and production support for a screening platform.

Requires 5+ years of experience, strong Python and Linux skills, and hands-on AWS experience. You will own components end to end, including development, testing, deployment strategies, and data

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience.
• Strong experience with Python and Linux.
• Proven experience ingesting, storing, and querying messy data at scale.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or other SQL relational databases.
• Familiarity with ElasticSearch or other NoSQL search engines.
• Hands-on AWS experience with Lambda, ECS, EC2, RDS, SQS, S3, Route 53, and networking concepts.
• Demonstrated initiative in independent or self-managed projects.
• Adaptable, self-motivated, and curious, ideally with startup exposure.
• Nice to have: NLP/NER, modeling, machine learning, or LangGraph.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Python services and data pipelines on Linux.
• Ingest, normalize, and query large-scale datasets.
• Implement and optimize data models in PostgreSQL or similar databases.
• Build and tune search capabilities using Elasticsearch or similar engines.
• Deploy and operate workloads on AWS including Lambda, ECS, EC2, RDS, SQS, S3, Route 53, and core networking.
• Own components end to end including source code, testing and validation, interdependencies, and deployment strategies.
• Contribute to modernization while supporting production stability for the screening platform.

Skills

Python

Linux

Data ingestion at scale

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

AWS

Independent / self-managed projects

Tools

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

AWS

Job description

Senior Python Developer role with Eliassen Group. Remote, contract position building and operating components of a SaaS risk and compliance AI platform. You will work primarily in Python on Linux, leverage AWS services, and contribute to modernization and production support for a screening platform.

Requires 5+ years of experience, strong Python and Linux skills, and hands-on AWS experience. You will own components end to end, including development, testing, deployment strategies, and data