[VMT] Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

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Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 5 years of Python development focused on backend systems.
• Proven experience building backend services with complex business logic - not just API wiring, but thoughtful state management, data modeling, and lifecycle orchestration.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL; experience with relational databases (e.g. Postgres), database schema design and evolution, and designing application- layer data workflows.
• Solid computer science fundamentals, including algorithmic thinking, data structures (graphs, queues, etc.), and design patterns.
• Experience building RESTful APIs (and/or GraphQL) and integrating backend services with external systems.
• Strong unit and integration testing practices, and experience integrating with CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, early-stage startup environment: independent, adaptable, proactive, and able to drive work forward with minimal oversight.
• Excellent communication skills — ability to translate requirements into technical designs, iterate with teammates, and build consensus.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and operate Python-based backend services and APIs to power data- driven web applications.
• Architect and implement complex business logic and state management for applications involving event lifecycles, workflow orchestration, and intelligent data processing.
• Integrate with our time-series data platform and AI reasoning engine to deliver proactive, interactive features to end users.
• Own the full application feature lifecycle: from rapid prototyping to scalable production deployment, with strong testing and CI/CD practices.
• Shape the overall architecture of application backends, collaborating with peers across data engineering, AI, infrastructure, and front-end teams.
• Support customer pilots and implementations by developing custom data processing and analytics modules as needed.