Backend Software Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Mon, Sep 14, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
Seeking a Python Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain high-throughput APIs and backend services for measurement products in a fully remote role within the United States, collaborating closely with Data Engineering and Data Science teams.
Key responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs in Python that power measurement products
- Collaborate with Data Engineering and Data Science to integrate models and data pipelines into production services
- Write clean, well-tested code and participate in code reviews while diagnosing and resolving production issues
Required qualifications
- 3-5 years of professional software engineering experience, primarily in Python
- Proven experience building and maintaining production backend services or APIs using FastAPI or a comparable async framework
- Working knowledge of AWS services (e.g., Kinesis, S3, RDS) and relational databases like Postgres
- Experience with async programming and performance optimization in high-volume APIs
- Familiarity with data pipeline tools such as Airflow and testing frameworks like pytest
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