Senior Backend Engineer

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.