Company Overview 10Pearls is an award-winning end-to-end digital innovation company that helps businesses imagine and build the future. We are proud to announce that 10Pearls was named as winner of the Best Tech Work Culture Timmy Award in Washington DC by Tech in Motion, recognized on the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies List, and was ranked the #1 Most Diverse Midsize Company in Greater Washington. We partner with businesses to help them transform, scale, and accelerate by adopting digital and exponential technologies. Our work has ranged from creating highly usable, secure digital experiences, mobile and software products, to helping businesses modernize through cloud adoption and development and the digitalization of their business processes. Our clientele is highly diverse, including Global 1000 enterprises, mid-market businesses, and high-growth start-ups. But those are just the facts. What makes us unique is that we have true heart and soul. We have a strong focus on a double bottom line and actively support and engage with the communities where we live and work to make the world a better place. In a nutshell, we believe in doing well, while doing good, and know how to balance the two.
Role 10Pearls is seeking a Senior Software Consultant — Application Development (L2 – Senior) to build and scale core application features that power our AIX Ontology platform. In this role, you will work closely with the architecture defined by the Backend Architect and take ownership of delivering production-grade, well-tested, and well-documented Python backend services. You will be responsible for developing GraphQL resolvers, domain logic, and system integrations that connect agents, UI, and ontology services, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
Responsibilities • Design and build core backend application features, including GraphQL query, mutation, and subscription resolvers. • Implement tenant-aware authorization and optimize data loading to avoid N+1 query issues. • Develop and maintain the Action Registry, including FSM workflows such as proposal creation, simulations, approvals, execution, and audit logging. • Build and manage Tool Catalog services, including CRUD operations and registration workflows for tools and model-as-tool entries. • Integrate backend systems with supporting services such as OPA for policy evaluation, Kafka for event emission, Vault for secret management, and audit-event generation. • Write clean, maintainable, and production-ready Python code aligned with system architecture standards. • Implement comprehensive unit, integration, and contract tests, ensuring performance and coverage standards are met. • Participate in design reviews, proactively manage technical debt, and contribute to overall code quality. • Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers when onboarded.
Requirements • 3–5 years of experience building production-grade Python backend systems. • Strong experience with backend frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, Django REST Framework, or equivalent. • Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design, complex queries, migrations, and transactions. • Proven experience developing GraphQL servers (e.g., Strawberry, Apollo, Hasura, Graphene), including resolvers, subscriptions, and performance optimization. • Solid understanding of AsyncIO, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, or equivalent ORMs. • Strong testing practices using pytest, fixtures, mocks, and integration testing strategies. • Experience working with containerized environments and Kubernetes-deployed services. • Strong written communication skills and collaborative pull request hygiene. • Ability to work onsite from Islamabad, Pakistan, and collaborate in an Agile environment.
Nice to Have • Exposure to policy-as-code frameworks such as OPA/Rego or ABAC models. • Experience with Kafka producers and consumers. • Previous experience working on multi-tenant SaaS backend systems. • Contributions to open-source Python backend projects.
