Backend Developer role building reliable Python services, REST APIs and data-processing pipelines for an enterprise technical intelligence platform.
Responsibilities
- ▹Design, develop and maintain backend services using Python
- ▹Build clean, stable and well-documented REST APIs
- ▹Develop data ingestion, normalization, enrichment and processing workflows
- ▹Work with structured and unstructured technical datasets from internal and external sources
- ▹Design and maintain database schemas, indexes, queries and backend data models
- ▹Implement background workers, scheduled tasks, automation pipelines and long-running jobs
- ▹Work with PostgreSQL, Redis, object storage and other backend infrastructure
- ▹Implement authentication, authorization, API access control, rate limiting and audit-friendly logic
- ▹Build backend support for analytics, reporting, monitoring and workflow automation
- ▹Collaborate with frontend developers on API contracts
- ▹Improve backend performance, error handling, logging and observability
- ▹Participate in code reviews, testing, debugging, deployment preparation and documentation
Requirements
- ▹Strong experience with Python
- ▹Experience with Flask, FastAPI or Django
- ▹Good understanding of REST API design
- ▹Experience with PostgreSQL and strong SQL/database design skills
- ▹Experience with Docker and Linux environments
- ▹Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows
- ▹Understanding of authentication, JWT, RBAC and API security principles
- ▹Experience with background jobs, workers, queues and schedulers such as Redis or Celery
- ▹Ability to write clean, modular, testable and maintainable backend code
- ▹Strong debugging skills in development and production-like environments
Nice to have
- ▹Experience with SQLAlchemy or similar ORM frameworks
- ▹Experience with large-scale data processing, parsing, enrichment or data-quality workflows
- ▹Experience with asynchronous or event-driven backend design
- ▹Experience with search, indexing, graph or analytics-oriented databases
- ▹Experience with cloud services, containerized deployments and CI/CD pipelines
- ▹Experience with monitoring, logging, metrics and observability tools
- ▹Experience building backend systems for enterprise, intelligence or compliance platforms
- ▹Secure coding and secure-by-design experience
- ▹Familiarity with AI-assisted processing or LLM integrations
Soft skills
Discretion and professional confidentiality handling proprietary dataAttention to reliability, security and maintainabilityAbility to translate complex business logic into backend services
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