Posted on: 02/11/2025
Job Title : Senior Backend Engineer (Python / FastAPI / AWS)
Location : Remote / Hybrid
Employment Type : Full-time
About the Role :
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join a growing technology team building modern, scalable platforms in the regulatory & life-sciences domain. This role offers the opportunity to work in an agile, globally distributed team and contribute to high-impact product architecture and engineering decisions.
You will collaborate closely with engineering leadership and product teams to design and deliver secure, scalable, and high-performance backend systems.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys technical autonomy, ownership, and solving complex backend challenges.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, build, and deploy scalable microservices and distributed backend systems
- Develop secure, high-performance APIs and backend services
- Own end-to-end development including design, coding, testing, deployment, and monitoring
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Product, and DevOps
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following best practices
- Optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and sprint planning
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows
- Contribute to architecture documentation and knowledge sharing
- Work effectively in a remote, collaborative team environment across time zones
Required Skills & Experience :
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Python, FastAPI, Django
- Proven experience designing and building microservices architectures
- Deep experience with AWS (e.g., Lambda, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudFormation, EKS/Fargate)
- Solid experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform/CloudFormation
- Strong knowledge of REST APIs, JSON, OpenAPI/Swagger
- Proficiency in async programming, event-driven systems & messaging patterns
- Strong database skills : PostgreSQL, MySQL (indexing, optimization, schema design)
- Working knowledge of NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB)
- Familiarity with security best practices (authentication, encryption, OWASP)
- Strong version control skills (Git) and modern branching strategies
Preferred Qualifications :
- Exposure to life-science / regulated industry systems
- Familiarity with data privacy frameworks (HIPAA, GDPR)
- Cloud certification (AWS / Azure / GCP)
- Understanding of AI/ML concepts & modern AI-assisted development practices
Soft Skills :
- Strong communication and ability to work cross-functionally
- Problem-solving mindset with analytical thinking
- Ability to operate independently in an agile environment
- Ownership mindset and willingness to mentor others
What Youll Get :
- Competitive compensation
- Flexible remote / hybrid working model
- Meaningful work in a high-impact domain
- Small, collaborative, high-trust engineering culture
- Opportunity to shape architecture and engineering practices
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Job Code
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