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Backend Software Engineer, Python / Go
About the role
• Build and maintain integrations with social platform APIs including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and others
• Develop backend services in Python and Go
• Work on streaming data pipelines using Kafka and AWS
• Modernize legacy services and improve performance
• Support production by handling alerts and investigating data issues
• Build AI agents and tools, including LLM-based agents and MCP servers, to automate engineering and support work
• Use AI across design, coding, testing, code review, and operations
• Collaborate with Product, Data, and other engineering teams
• Build backend services and streaming pipelines that process creator content, metrics, and audience data at approximately 1 billion social records per day
• Design for resilience, token health, and monitoring because upstream APIs change, throttle traffic, and fail unpredictably
• Report to the Engineering Manager
• 3+ years of commercial backend development
• Strong Python 3 skills, including asyncio, type hints, Pydantic, and pytest
• Production experience with Go
• Experience integrating third-party REST/GraphQL APIs at scale, including OAuth, rate limiting, retries/backoff, idempotency, and pagination
• Hands-on AWS experience with Lambda, S3, SQS, Kinesis/Firehose, and Secrets Manager
• Docker experience and working knowledge of Kubernetes
• Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL and analytical warehouses such as Redshift with large, partitioned tables
• Experience with Kafka or a similar streaming/messaging system
• Good testing habits and experience with code review and CI/CD
• Hands-on experience building AI agents using LLM APIs, tool use/function calling, MCP, prompt and context design, and agent-output evaluation
• Fluency in an AI-assisted software development lifecycle
• Comfort debugging production issues end to end from logs and metrics
• Good written and spoken English
• Polish work authorization/right to stay and work requirements indicated in the application form
• Nice to have: social platform APIs, Serverless Framework, Sanic or aiohttp, Helm, Airflow, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server, PHP, Coralogix, Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, data modeling, versioned data contracts, influencer marketing/martech/ad-tech, agent frameworks or SDKs, RAG, and agent evaluation
• Learning platform and training tools
• Surprise meal stipends
• 26 days vacation
• Floating and set holidays
• Wellness allowance
• Paid parental leave
• Medical insurance
• Life insurance
• Business travel insurance
• Stock options as part of an equity-sharing program
• Cell phone and internet stipends
• Home office setup stipend
• Mental wellness stipend
• Professional development stipend
• Tuition reimbursement
• Occasional company-funded meals
• Flexible work model combining in-person and remote work