Senior Backend Engineer (Product Core Team)
This fully remote role is for a Senior Backend Engineer to help grow AppFollow globally. You’ll work on core backend systems that power user interaction with product data, enable fast and efficient access to source-agnostic datasets, and support flexible analytics and reporting capabilities across multiple data types.
About the Role
- Develop and optimize core backend functionality of the AppFollow product
- Build and maintain systems for user interaction with product data
- Design, develop, and support a source-agnostic data storage layer that enables efficient, fast, and reliable data delivery to end users
- Develop and support systems for generating insights from various types of customer and product data (including ratings, reviews, and other data sources), with a focus on flexible and custom reporting
- Support internal and public APIs for core data entities, following API-first principles
- Design, build, maintain and document an efficient, testable, reliable, secure and scalable codebase.
- Contribute with other developers to design and improve the entire system architecture.
- Interaction with legacy services
- Collaborating with the Platform team to deploy the application to various environments and ensure smooth operation, adopt accepted standards, practices and processes to the maintainable systems.
About you
- 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
It would be nice to have
- Experience with cloud-based services (AWS)
- API-first experience: designing, building, and evolving systems with well-defined, stable, and consumer-oriented APIs
- Experience with GraphQL
- Experience with long-running migrations or large-scale refactorings in complex or legacy codebases
Benefits we offer
- Full-time remote job. Though you’re always welcome to spend time with us in monthly basis in Belgrade/Batumi/Tbilisi.
- Paid Vacation and Sick leaves. Take the time you need to stay motivated, charged, and balanced. By prior agreement, you can have days off for special occasions
- Generous social benefits package including health insurance, equipment reimbursement, home office moderation bonus, and many more
- Stock options bonus according to the employee stock ownership plan
- You’ll have executive-level visibility into how the company is run and performing. We are always ready to provide dedicated support and fast-track your onboarding, including giving you the tools you need to be successful.
The biggest benefit is our awesome AppFollow team. We're a team of open-minded and friendly high-skilled professionals that enjoy creating a great product, growing together, and supporting each other.
