Senior Python Backend Engineer
Brooksource
Illinois, Us, United States Full Time Technology Jobs United States New
Job Description
Senior Python Backend Engineer
Waukegan, IL (Onsite Tues-Thurs)
W-2 Contract through EOY (expected renewal)
$70-80/hr (W-2 only)
ABOUT THE ROLE
Our client, a Fortune 500 biopharmaceutical company, is seeking a Senior Python Backend Engineer for a hybrid Waukegan, IL-based W-2 contract role. In this position, you will play a key role in building agentic AI capabilities into the IT Service Management (ITSM) platform, enabling automated agents to pick up, diagnose, and resolve IT tickets end-to-end. You will focus on developing and maintaining production-grade, headless Python backend services and APIs that power automation workflows and integrate with ServiceNow, reducing manual L1/L2 support, improving speed and consistency, and enabling scalable automation across enterprise IT operations. The work is primarily backend Python (80-90%), with some React/TypeScript for internal admin tooling. This is a hands-on, senior-level engineering role with significant responsibility for production readiness, code quality, and mentoring, operating within a formal Agile Scrum environment.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Waukegan, IL (Onsite Tues-Thurs)
W-2 Contract through EOY (expected renewal)
$70-80/hr (W-2 only)
ABOUT THE ROLE
Our client, a Fortune 500 biopharmaceutical company, is seeking a Senior Python Backend Engineer for a hybrid Waukegan, IL-based W-2 contract role. In this position, you will play a key role in building agentic AI capabilities into the IT Service Management (ITSM) platform, enabling automated agents to pick up, diagnose, and resolve IT tickets end-to-end. You will focus on developing and maintaining production-grade, headless Python backend services and APIs that power automation workflows and integrate with ServiceNow, reducing manual L1/L2 support, improving speed and consistency, and enabling scalable automation across enterprise IT operations. The work is primarily backend Python (80-90%), with some React/TypeScript for internal admin tooling. This is a hands-on, senior-level engineering role with significant responsibility for production readiness, code quality, and mentoring, operating within a formal Agile Scrum environment.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build, extend, and support headless, production-grade Python backend services and APIs to automate ITSM workflows.
- Develop and maintain ServiceNow integrations operating in live, production enterprise infrastructure.
- Contribute React/TypeScript code to internal admin portals used to oversee and govern automation behavior.
- Ensure production readiness, including logging, monitoring, debugging, and incident support for backend systems.
- Lead code reviews, enforce backend engineering standards, and mentor junior and nearshore developers.
- Participate in Scrum ceremonies, including daily standups, bi-weekly sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, delivering work aligned with committed sprint goals.
- Collaborate with Product Owners and Business Systems Analysts to define user stories, acceptance criteria, and definitions of done.
- Evaluate and challenge non-scalable or non-production-ready designs and patterns, proposing improved solutions within enterprise constraints.
- Senior-level experience building and supporting production-level Python backend systems and APIs.
- Demonstrated experience developing in large, highly structured enterprise Agile environments.
- Strong background in logging, monitoring, debugging, and supporting real systems in production.
- Proven ability to own code quality, mentor junior engineers, and enforce backend engineering standards; able to push back on bad patterns and advocate for scalable solutions.
- Working experience with React and TypeScript for internal admin portals.
- Comfort operating within delivery governance, SLAs, and cross-functional stakeholder expectations.
- Must reside within commuting distance of Waukegan, IL and work onsite Tuesday-Thursday (no relocation).
- Exposure to LLMs, agentic frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI), or production use of LLM APIs, including personal projects.
- Experience integrating with ServiceNow, Remedy, or other enterprise ITSM platforms.
- Experience building and running backend services in AWS production environments.
- Familiarity with enterprise IT infrastructure domains (compute, networking, DNS/DHCP, load balancing, monitoring tools).
Posted April 27, 2026