The Senior Backend Engineer designs and builds our APIs with Python. Beyond shipping features, this role contributes to architectural decisions, maintains a high quality bar through reviews and standards, and drives AI-augmented development practices to scale team productivity.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
About Our Team:
- API-First Backend: We build our high-performance backend APIs using Python and the Flask framework.
- Modern Git Workflow: We use GitHub Enterprise for version control, adhering to a robust development flow that includes Feature Branches, Pull Requests, and Semantic Tagging.
- Agile & Documentation: We rely on Jira for agile issue tracking and Confluence for comprehensive technical documentation.
- Automated CI/CD: Our CI/CD pipelines are powered by Jenkins (CI) and Ansible (CD) to ensure seamless and automated deployments.
- Cloud-Native Infrastructure: Our system architecture is fully hosted on AWS, leveraging various cloud-native services to build scalable platforms.
- AI-Driven Development: AI-augmented development is deeply integrated into our daily routine; leveraging tools like Claude Code is second nature to us.
- Knowledge-Sharing Culture: We actively foster an environment for sharing technical knowledge, best practices, and domain expertise.
- Psychological Safety: We maintain an open-minded team culture where curiosity is rewarded, and no one should ever hesitate to ask questions.
Role & Responsibilities:
In this position, we are looking for a team member who enjoys learning various languages and is open to taking on any development tasks. Your role will be responsible to:
(50%) Design & Develop
- Design system flow and mechanism to achieve module requirement and maintenance.
- Optimize system flow and re-factor core module
(20%) Code Quality & Engineering Discipline
- Conduct deep code reviews focused on architecture, performance, and maintainability.
- Enforcing backend coding standards and maintaining clean architectural boundaries (separation of concerns).
- Investigating, debugging, and resolving backend-related production incidents efficiently.
(20%) AI-Augmented Development
- Use AI coding tools (Claude Code) productively and judge output quality.
- Design team workflows around AI: prompt templates, custom skills, workflow.
(10%) Knowledge Sharing & Collaboration
- Share knowledge through reviews, tech talks, or written docs.
- Collaborating cross-functionally with Frontend, DevOps, Data, and Product Management (PM) teams.
ESSENTIAL JOB QUALIFICATIONS
Education/Technical Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Equivalent work experience may be considered in place of a formal degree.
- Expert in Python, SQL, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with Git/GitHub (Pull Request Flow) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar).
- Productive use of AI coding tools, with judgment to review and correct AI output.
Knowledge/Work Experience
- 3+ years of backend development.
- Proven experience shipping and maintaining production backend service at scale.
- Track record of leading technical initiatives end-to-end.
- Experience in code reviews, team collaboration, and great communication.
Key Behavioral Competencies
- Ownership — Takes problems from ambiguous to shipped.
- Pragmatism — Balances correctness, speed, and maintainability.
- AI-savvy judgment — Treats AI as force multiplier, not a crutch.
- Collaborative communicator — Shares knowledge openly, gives and receives feedback well.
- Continuous learning — Stays current with frontend ecosystem and AI tooling.
