Senior Python Full-Stack Engineer (Architecture Focus)

About the Project

We are a product-driven company building a live commercial product with real users in a high-load environment.
The platform is actively growing — new features, scaling challenges, and architectural evolution.

We are looking for a Senior Python Full-Stack Engineer with strong backend and system design expertise who can take ownership of complex technical decisions and contribute to architectural evolution.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend services
• Participate in architectural decisions
• Improve system performance and scalability
• Optimize database queries and indexing strategies
• Ensure data consistency across services
• Contribute to distributed system design decisions
• Review code and mentor engineers

• Work closely with product and engineering teams

   

Must-Have Requirements

• 6+ years of commercial software development
• Strong Python expertise (production-level experience)
• Deep experience with Django / FastAPI / Flask
• Strong knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Experience designing scalable REST APIs
• Solid understanding of:
  • Database indexing strategies (B-tree, Hash, Composite)
  • Query optimization & profiling (EXPLAIN, performance tuning)
  • Transactions & data consistency
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts:
  • Data consistency
  • Event-driven communication
  • Replication strategies
• Experience with background processing (Celery, async workers)
• Docker & Git

• Production-level experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)

   

Strong Plus

• Experience with:

  • Distributed transactions (Saga pattern, eventual consistency)
  • Message brokers (Kafka / SQS / SNS / RabbitMQ)
  • High-load systems
  • Database scaling (replication, sharding, read replicas)
  • Observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
  • CI/CD pipelines

  Frontend

• Experience with React (Next.js is a plus)
• Understanding of frontend-backend integration
• Ability to contribute to frontend architecture when needed
   

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Fully remote
• Working hours: Mon–Fri 16:00–00:00 (UTC+X)
• Direct impact on architecture and product decisions
• Long-term collaboration