Senior Backend Engineer (Product Team)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Develop and optimize the functionality of the AppFollow product
• ▹Contribute to the system for automating user interaction with customer reviews (tagging, responding to reviews, report generation, etc.)
• ▹Support systems for getting insights from customer data (ratings and reviews)
• ▹Contribute to AI-management technologies (semantic analysis, summarization, etc.)
• ▹Support internal and public API to core data entities
• ▹Design, build, maintain and document an efficient, testable, reliable, secure and scalable codebase
• ▹Collaborate with other developers to design and improve the entire system architecture
• ▹Interact with legacy services
• ▹Collaborate with the Platform team to deploy the application to various environments

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of software development experience in backend
• ▹3+ years of asyncio experience in Python development
• ▹Proficiency in FastAPI for API endpoint development
• ▹Strong SQL skills, particularly in MySQL or PostgreSQL
• ▹Experience with ORM frameworks (preferably SQLAlchemy)
• ▹Experience with NoSQL DBs (MongoDB)
• ▹Experience with message brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
• ▹Experience with unit testing (Pytest)
• ▹Upper-intermediate English proficiency

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with ML projects (NLP with LLMs)
• ▹Experience with integration with big LLMs (development of assistants, RAG, etc.)
• ▹Experience with vector storage DBs
• ▹Experience in data processing pipelines and automation (e.g. Airflow, Prefect)
• ▹Experience with cloud-based services (AWS)
• ▹Experience with R&D projects

What we offer

• ▹Full-time remote job, with optional monthly All-hands in hubs (Helsinki, Belgrade, Tbilisi, Batumi, Yerevan)
• ▹Paid vacation and sick leave; days off for special occasions by prior agreement
• ▹Generous social benefits package including health insurance, equipment reimbursement, home office bonus, and more
• ▹Stock options bonus according to the employee stock ownership plan
• ▹Executive-level visibility into how the company is run and performing
• ▹Dedicated support and fast-tracked onboarding

About the company

AppFollow is an app review management and ASO platform that helps app developers, product managers, marketing teams, and customer support gather and manage their app data, increase app ratings, app store rankings, and user loyalty.