AI Developer building high - performance AI systems for customer support at IONOS. Collaborating on multimodal platform integrating voice and text interactions.
About the role
- Senior Backend Engineer responsible for backend architecture upgrades and team mentoring. Working at a fast-growing startup transforming higher education for over 1 million students.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the founders and product managers to understand the Why behind each capability in the platform
- Help to drive alignment on the prioritization of engineering-driven priorities along side product priorities
- Design and lead the implementation of scalable backend architectures for mission-critical enterprise applications
- Build and maintain clean, ergonomic APIs to handle complex business logic and data flows
- Develop and optimize database schemas and queries to process terabytes of data efficiently
- Identify and introduce abstractions to increase the performance and reliability of our systems
- Up-level our general engineering rigor and maturity by mentoring other engineers in best practices, design patterns, and code quality
- Ensure a high-degree of quality by designing robust testing strategies and implementing suites of reliable tests
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer operating at scale
- Strong ownership mindset and the ability to autonomously lead and drive complex implementations
- Deep curiosity, customer empathy, and commitment to engineering as a craft
- Ability to plan, estimate, and manage the technical aspects of project execution and delivery
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to mentor junior developers
- Impeccable communication skills for collaborating with product, design, and customer-facing teams
- Deep experience with backend engineering using high-level programming languages and frameworks (Python/Django a plus)
- Deep experience with ORMs, RESTful APIs, background jobs, real-time streaming, etc; (DRF, Celery, Channels a plus)
- Experience with both single- and multi-tenant architectures
- Advanced skills in cloud deployment and hyperscalers (AWS a plus)
- Strong proficiency in designing and optimizing SQL databases and complex SQL queries (PostgreSQL a plus)
- Experience implementing secure AuthN/AuthZ systems using OAuth2, SAML, JWTs, RBAC/ABAC, etc.
- Experience implementing search engine capabilities (ElasticSearch a plus)
- Experience with asynchronous / event-based programming, message / event queues, etc.
- Strong background in API design, documentation, and versioning strategies
- Solid understanding of software testing, CI/CD practices, observability, etc. (AWS CodeDeploy, Sentry, Grafana, Prometheus a plus)
- Proficiency in building and managing data orchestration pipelines for ETL and other large-scale data processing problems using high-level languages like Python and frameworks like Dagster, Airflow, etc.
Benefits
- Competitive USD salary
- Generous stock options in a Series B stage startup
- Comprehensive health insurance. Stellic covers 100% of premiums for you and your dependents, plus 50% for parents.
- Commute benefits to make daily life easier.
- Annual international retreats in some of the world’s most beautiful cities and towns.
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