YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
Senior Backend Engineer
About the role
• Build and scale backend services for a tech-enabled home-services marketplace
• Own the matching and bidding engine, including ranking, professional scoring, and Extra Bids
• Develop and maintain payment, subscription, cashback, bonus, promotional-code, VAT, Stripe, and Softone ERP integrations
• Help operate and improve a fast, zero-downtime platform on Kubernetes
• Work on trust and safety, experimentation, Salesforce/CRM integrations, and AI systems using FastAPI, LangGraph, and pgvector
• Ship continuously through GitLab CI, ArgoCD, and Argo Rollouts
• Own features end-to-end from design through building, testing, and monitoring
• Make technical decisions, participate in code reviews, refactor systems, pair, document work, and collaborate across disciplines
• Lead projects, set technical direction, review code, and mentor engineers
• Investigate production incidents, legacy systems, and customer issues
• 5+ years building and scaling production backend services, with strong Python / Django and REST API depth
• Designed systems, including defining service and API boundaries and evaluating architectural trade-offs
• PostgreSQL depth at scale, including data modeling, query optimization, indexing, and concurrency correctness
• Asynchronous / distributed systems experience, including background processing and queues such as Celery
• Production ownership, observability, live-incident debugging, and testing
• Experience leading projects end-to-end and mentoring engineers
• Docker and Kubernetes experience
• Experience with a major cloud, AWS preferred
• CI/CD experience
• Excellent English
• Interest in joining a remote, multicultural team
• Bonus: Terraform, FastAPI, LLM and agentic experience, LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, pgvector, payments/fintech or marketplace background, startup or high-performance-team environment
• Competitive compensation
• Potential stock options
• Group Health Insurance
• The workstation of your choice
• A bespoke development plan to grow fast and reach your potential
• Genuine ownership of impacting millions of customers and thousands of pros
• International team environment