Senior Backend Engineer (Python) — m/f/d

We're a fast-growing product company building an AI-powered platform used by thousands of teams every day.

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to own critical services end-to-end — from design to production — and help us scale to the next order of magnitude.

You'll join a small, senior team where your decisions have real impact.

Tasks - Design, build and operate scalable backend services (Python / FastAPI) and REST APIs.

- Model and optimize PostgreSQL schemas; write efficient async queries.

- Own services end-to-end: architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and monitoring.

- Integrate third-party APIs and internal microservices behind a gateway.

- Improve reliability, performance and security under high concurrency.

- Collaborate with product and frontend to ship features that matter.

- Mentor mid-level engineers and raise the bar on code quality.

Requisitos

- 5+ years building production backend systems in Python. - Strong experience with FastAPI (or Flask/Django) and async programming. - Solid PostgreSQL

Habilidades

: schema design, indexing, query optimization. - Experience designing and scaling REST APIs and microservices. - Comfortable with Docker, CI/CD and cloud (AWS preferred). - Good understanding of auth (JWT/OAuth), caching and message queues. - Clear written and spoken English; pragmatic, ownership mindset

Nice to have: Kubernetes, SQLAlchemy, observability (Prometheus/Grafana), LLM/AI integrations.

Beneficios

- Competitive salary + equity. - Remote-friendly with flexible hours. - Top-tier hardware and a yearly learning budget. - 30 days paid vacation. - Small senior team, real ownership, fast decisions

Skills: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, REST APIs, Microservices, SQLAlchemy, CI/CD, Redis If you like owning hard problems and shipping reliable systems at scale, we'd love to talk.

The process is quick: a short AI video interview, then a technical conversation with the team.

Apply today.

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