Software Engineer - Python

Software Engineer Local Listings & Directory Integrations Python Backend

Location : Remote / Hybrid.

Team : Local Type : Full-time.

The Opportunity :

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Software Engineer to join our Local SEO team an innovative platform that powers and manages local business listings across major directories like Google, Apple, and Bing.

Local SEO helps businesses create, update, close, and syndicate their listings at scale while ensuring data consistency and accuracy.

With partnerships across top platforms and a growing customer base managing over 100K+ locations, we're scaling fast and expanding support to new directories.

You'll play a key role in enhancing the backend infrastructure, ensuring system scalability, improving data accuracy, and helping us integrate intelligence into critical workflows.

If you enjoy working on complex backend systems, large-scale data flows, and platform integrations and want to build software that directly impacts local businesses worldwide we'd love to meet you.

What You'll Do :

• Develop and maintain scalable backend systems in Python to manage business listings across Google, Apple, Bing, and future directories.
• Design and implement integrations with third-party directory APIs, ensuring seamless data syncing and change management.
• Leverage AI / ML techniques to improve data quality, detect anomalies, and automate decisions. This includes tasks like address parsing, categorization, and review sentiment analysis.
• Implement robust workflows for ingesting, validating, and transforming large volumes of daily directory data from various sources.
• Troubleshoot complex issues arising from API changes, sync errors, and edge cases to ensure our systems remain resilient and accurate.
• Optimize performance to support enterprise customers with over 100,000 locations, focusing on latency, reliability, and throughput.
• Contribute to a review management system, including automation of review responses, posts, summaries, and notifications.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, QA, and DevOps teams to improve overall application robustness and operability.
• Participate in architectural discussions and roadmap planning for future directory support and scaling strategies.

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