Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer (6+ years of relevant experience) with deep technical expertise in Python , Java , and distributed data systems. The role involves designing and operating large-scale, high-performance backend and data processing systems. You’ll collaborate directly with the CTO , taking ownership of the complete backend stack — from ingestion to action — while bringing a collaborative, approachable, and fun energy to the team.

Responsibilities

Owns the full stack of ingestion → processing → storage → action / triggers; can drive architecture and performance optimizations

Domain Driven development experience in understanding the software architecture and modeling based on that knowledge

Build and maintain backend services using Python (FastAPI) and Java .

Design and operate real-time data pipelines using Apache Flink or equivalent.

Manage and scale distributed systems using Ray.io (Core, AI, Cluster management).

Optimize PostgreSQL and integrate with NoSQL systems (MongoDB, etc.).

Architect microservices and event-driven systems for high throughput and low latency.

Use Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.

Set up CI / CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and monitor performance with AWS CloudWatch / Grafana .

Lead by example in coding standards, testing, and system design.

Requirements

Good-to-Have Skills (Bonus Areas)

Pydantic

Celery / Dramatiq / RQ – async background tasks

Terraform / IaC

Experience with KubeRay

Ray.io Datasets

Apache Spark / Dask familiarity

TensorFlow / PyTorch exposure (ML integration)

Kafka, event-driven architecture

Requirements

Senior Backend Engineer