Backend Engineer (Integrations, Python)

At Qencode, we are proud to be at the cutting edge of video technology. As a U.S.-based company, we have established ourselves as a trusted technology partner to some of the world's leading organizations, including Fortune 500 giants like NVIDIA, AWS, Google, and DigitalOcean.

As we expand our initiatives for 2026, we are looking for a Backend Engineer focused on Integrations. In this dynamic role, you'll work directly with our CTO to build and maintain integrations with third-party platforms and services, including HubSpot, Stripe, PayPal, Intercom, Fivetran, Metabase, Google Analytics, and a growing number of AI tools and applied AI projects.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, improve, and extend Qencode backend APIs (recent focus on FastAPI).
• Build and maintain integrations with platforms like HubSpot, Stripe, PayPal, Intercom, Fivetran, Metabase, and Google Analytics, as well as emerging AI tools and applied AI projects.
• Design reliable integration patterns: webhooks, OAuth flows, rate limiting, retries, and idempotency.
• MySQL schema design, indexing, query optimization, and data integrity.
• Own and evolve billing workflows: usage calculation, credits/quotas, invoicing logic, billing events, and correctness checks

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience with Python.
• Hands-on experience with FastAPI (and comfort maintaining Flask services).
• Solid database skills (schema design, SQL, query troubleshooting). MySQL experience is a strong fit.
• Experience with message brokers (RabbitMQ preferred).
• Experience writing and maintaining database migrations.
• Comfort integrating with external services and APIs.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with AI/ML tools or building integrations for AI-powered workflows.
• Experience with ClickHouse, BigQuery, or modern analytics stacks.
• Payments/billing domain experience (usage-based billing, invoices, proration, reconciliation).
• Experience building reliable integration pipelines (queues, background jobs, retries, observability).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Benefits

• Professional development and career growth opportunities.
• Work directly with the founding team.
• Innovation where new ideas are encouraged and rewarded.
• Exposure to a wide range of work experience

About Us

Providing value, innovation and excellence are at the heart of everything we do at Qencode. We're committed to pushing the boundaries of video technology in our rapidly evolving world and we would love for you to join us on this journey. Please apply so we can schedule an interview.