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Backend Engineer

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 51-200Since 2015H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

12 days ago

Salary

Not specified

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Job Description

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Role Description

Develop, deliver, document and support robust and stable backend application features, third-party integrations and infrastructure across a breadth of services and environments.

  • Support the development and implementation of backend features and integrations across both legacy and new systems.
  • Collaborate with senior engineers and stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions aligned with business needs.
  • Contribute to feasibility discussions and support early-stage prototyping with guidance from peers.
  • Implement backend functionality with attention to performance, readability, and maintainability.
  • Follow team patterns and contribute to test coverage, including basic post-deployment and load testing scripts.
  • Escalate reliability or performance concerns and partner with senior engineers to resolve them.
  • Help maintain and improve application monitoring by setting up or adjusting alerts, dashboards, or logs.
  • Participate in debugging and resolving production issues, with support from senior team members.
  • Document fixes and share learnings to strengthen team awareness and incident response.
  • Support infrastructure tasks using established tools (e.g., Terraform, ECS, Lambda) under guidance.
  • Assist in maintaining CI/CD pipelines and participate in identifying workflow improvements.
  • Write maintainable, testable code using frameworks like Django and testing tools such as Pytest.
  • Engage in code reviews with a learning mindset and contribute to a culture of quality and shared ownership.
  • Pair with teammates to troubleshoot issues and improve knowledge of system architecture.
  • Build awareness of how backend systems connect to product goals and customer outcomes.
  • Share observations that could improve team workflows, code quality, or product performance.
  • Seek clarity on priorities and outcomes to ensure engineering effort supports business value.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional development experience using Python and deploying backend systems using Python frameworks like Django or FastAPI.

Requirements

  • Experience with containerized Python/Django (or FastAPI) services, including deployment on AWS.
  • Proficiency in troubleshooting production bugs in systems with limited QA support.
  • Strong grasp of SQL databases, CI/CD (especially CircleCI), containerized solutions, and infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred).
  • Comfortable contributing ideas, giving peer feedback via pull requests, and driving technical improvements autonomously.

Benefits

  • Diverse, inclusive team and culture.
  • Equal Employment Opportunity company.
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Job Requirements

  • 3+ years of professional development experience using Python and deploying backend systems using Python frameworks like Django or FastAPI.
  • Experience with containerized Python/Django (or FastAPI) services, including deployment on AWS.
  • Proficiency in troubleshooting production bugs in systems with limited QA support.
  • Strong grasp of SQL databases, CI/CD (especially CircleCI), containerized solutions, and infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred).
  • Comfortable contributing ideas, giving peer feedback via pull requests, and driving technical improvements autonomously.

Benefits

  • Diverse, inclusive team and culture.
  • Equal Employment Opportunity company.
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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