Developer – BE

Job Description

Developer — Python | aiohttp | REST |Pandas

At Assent, we’re solving complex technical challenges with global impact. Our multi-tenant SaaS platform helps the world’s most influential companies gain deep visibility into their supply chains—enabling them to manage risk, ensure compliance, and take real action on issues like forced labor, environmental sustainability, and ethical sourcing.

We’re looking for a Developer with deep expertise in Python and Back-end architecture to own the design system strategy and lead the evolution of our product. You should have a basic understanding of Angular and UI Technologies. You’ll work closely with engineering leaders, product managers, and architects to define technical direction, enforce architectural standards, and ensure delivery of scalable, accessible, and well-tested WebApp solutions across multiple teams.

You’ll operate in a high-trust CI/CD environment—every commit goes to production, and there’s no separate QA team. That means you’ll be responsible for setting expectations and ensuring quality practices are embedded in the development process. You’ll drive the creation of automated test coverage strategies, web app development and documentation.

We work with the latest technology and plan to keep doing so. Our team uses tools like GitHub Copilot to help with AI-powered coding, Lucid for architectural design, and we’re always open to trying new tools that can help us create better experiences for our customers. 

Our Product Tech Stack will Includes:

• C#, Python
• Pandas
• NumPy/SciPy
• AIOHTTP
• CI/CD pipelines that support rapid, high-quality delivery to production
• Angular

We value system thinking, performance, and platform maintainability. You’ll help ensure that UI decisions support both short-term product goals and long-term architectural integrity.

What You’ll Do:

As a Python Developer for this foundational pilot, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing the core serverless backend architecture that powers the user interaction and data processing pipeline. Your focus will be on building a scalable, observable, and maintainable API and orchestration layer leveraging AWS services. Key responsibilities include:

• Design and develop RESTful APIs using AWS API Gateway integrated directly with Lambda functions, removing the need for a traditional monolithic BFF.
• Implement endpoint logic in Python-based Lambda functions, focusing on modular, single-responsibility functions such as file upload, status checks, and analytics retrieval.
• Ensure the API layer abstracts away all backend complexity from the Angular frontend, providing clean and reliable interfaces to support user interactions.
• Support core user flows, such as uploading CMRT files and retrieving analytic results, by implementing and exposing APIs that connect to appropriate backend services.
• Partner closely with frontend engineers, data platform teams, and Gold-tier data engineers to define requirements, ensure backend compatibility, and surface data insights effectively.
• Work with data engineers to integrate the API layer with the medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold), routing requests dynamically based on the data and analytics context.
• Implement and maintain AWS Step Functions workflows to orchestrate file processing, from ingestion through to entity resolution and persistence.
• Use EventBridge to trigger workflows on CMRT file uploads to S3, ensuring the system is extensible for future ingestion paths (e.g., SFTP, email, or 3rd-party systems).
• Set coding standards, enforce clean architecture principles, and mentor other developers working on the Lambda and orchestration components.
• By leading the development of this cloud-native, event-driven architecture, you'll enable rapid iteration, scalability, and future extensibility of the RM Foundational Pilot platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 1 to 5 years of experience in front-end development, with at least 4 years focused on Angular.
• Strong Python expertise, especially in building modular, serverless applications using AWS Lambda.
• Experience with AWS services, including API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge, and S3.
• Strong understanding of Apache Kafka/Amazon Kinesis
• Basic understanding of Pandas and Pyspark.
• Familiarity with ML Integration.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and orchestrating workflows using AWS-native tools.
• Understanding of data processing pipelines and integrating with layered data architectures (e.g., Bronze, Silver, Gold).
• Experience collaborating across frontend, backend, and data teams to deliver end-to-end functionality.
• Strong emphasis on clean testing, and performance optimization.
• Leadership in setting technical direction, mentoring developers, and maintaining code quality at scale.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of event-driven and asynchronous workflows in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with data platform integration, including medallion architectures (Bronze, Silver, Gold) and analytics consumption patterns.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (e.g., CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform), and version control best practices.
• Experience with Angular frontend integration and knowledge of CMRT or similar compliance data formats.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for front-end deployments.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).

Additional Information

Life at Assent

Wellness: We believe that you and your family’s well being is important. As a result, we offer vacation time that increases with tenure, comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country), life leave days and more.

Financial Benefits: It’s not all about the money – well, it’s a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary, a corporate bonus program, retirement savings options and more.

Life at Assent: There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options, volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.

Lifelong Learning: At Assent, curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.

At Assent, we are committed to growing and sustaining an environment where our team members feel included, valued, and heard. Our diversity and equal opportunity practices are guided and championed by our Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion includes recruiting and retaining team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and fostering a culture of belonging where all team members are included, treated with dignity and respect, promoted on their merits, and placed in positions to contribute to business success.

If you require assistance or accommodation throughout any part of the interview and selection process, please contact [email protected] and we will be happy to help.  

We use AI to support parts of our recruitment process, such as note-taking and initial shortlisting based on job-related qualifications. AI does not make hiring decisions. All candidates will speak with a real person, and final decisions are always made by our recruitment team.