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Mid LevelFull-timeTypeScriptPythonJavaReactNext.jsDjangoAWSDockerTerraformPostgreSQL
Salary Range
$20,400 - $27,600 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale secure, high-performance public-facing APIs. This role involves developing robust backend services using Python, FastAPI, Celery, PostgreSQL, and AWS, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance in production environments.
Key Responsibilities
- →Design, develop, and maintain public-facing RESTful APIs using Python and FastAPI
- →Architect scalable backend systems with clean, modular, and testable code
- →Implement asynchronous/background processing using Celery
- →Design and optimise schemas and queries in PostgreSQL
- →Deploy, monitor, and scale applications on AWS
- →Ensure API security, authentication, authorisation, and rate limiting
- →Implement observability (logging, metrics, tracing) for production systems
- →Write unit, integration tests and technical documentation
- →Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions
- →Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure high availability and reliability of APIs
Requirements
- ✓4-6 years of experience in full-stack software development
- ✓Strong proficiency in Python/Java
- ✓Hands-on experience with FastAPI (or similar frameworks like Flask/Django REST)
- ✓Proven experience building and scaling public-facing APIs
- ✓Strong understanding of REST principles, API versioning, and backward compatibility
- ✓Experience with asynchronous task processing using Celery
- ✓Solid experience with PostgreSQL (query optimisation, indexing, transactions)
- ✓Strong understanding of database design and performance tuning
- ✓Experience with caching mechanisms such as Redis
- ✓Experience deploying and operating services on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS preferred)
- ✓Experience with API Gateway, rate limiting, and web application firewalls (WAF)
- ✓Strong understanding of authentication and authorisation (OAuth2, JWT)
- ✓Experience with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
- ✓Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
- ✓Experience with frontend technologies (React / Next.js / TypeScript) is an added advantage
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