Backend Engineer

Job Summary:

• Play a key role in building, maintaining, and scaling a core backend API platform.
• Hands-on leadership role, spend time writing production code, guiding technical decisions, and setting backend engineering standards.
• Own the backend lifecycle, ensuring systems are robust, secure, and designed to scale.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build modular, extensible backend systems integrating multiple services, databases, and third-party clients.
• Engineer for scale using asynchronous processing and task queues (Celery, RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• Implement authentication, authorization, and security best practices (OAuth2, JWT), ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Qualifications and Job Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience with Python, focused on API and service development.
• Expert-level experience with FastAPI, OpenAPI/Swagger, Pydantic, and SQLAlchemy.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes concepts and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).