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# Python Engineer

- **Company:** New Digital IT Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Software as a Service, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), OAuth, Software Security, Caching, Pytest, Microservices
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/c1e2d90b-d37f-482f-b6da-32d4be2678e1

## About the Role

* 7+ years Python building production microservices for typical modern SaaS backends; strong async (asyncio), typed code, pytest, ruff.

 * API security fundamentals: OAuth 2.0 (client credentials, on-behalf-of / token exchange), JWT issuance and verification, JWKS rotation and caching, secrets handling.

 * Microservices architecture experience: service-to-service auth, structured error/result handling across service boundaries, fail-open vs. fail-closed reasoning under a latency budget.

 * Reads an unfamiliar, unmaintained codebase quickly and cites module and line in every claim; works from written acceptance criteria without supervision.

Nice to have

 * OAuth token exchange (RFC 8693) in production, and can explain why forwarding the user's token downstream is unsafe (aud, scope narrowing, confused deputy); production AWS experience (Lambda or ECS, IAM, Secrets Manager).