Lead Backend Engineer, Distributed Systems
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PartnerizeSaaS AdTech
Location: London - RemoteFull-TimeLead
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLPythonKafkaRabbitmqRedisCI/CDRESTful APIsDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Extensive software engineering experience using Python within production environments
- Experience designing and developing scalable backend or distributed systems
- Strong understanding of software architecture, OO principles, and integration patterns
- Experience leading technical initiatives or projects across cross-functional engineering teams
- Experience working with distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and messaging/event-driven architectures
- Strong knowledge of Agile and Lean delivery approaches
- Proficiency in clean code, TDD, refactoring, Domain-Driven Design, CI/CD, and observability
- Experience designing, developing, and consuming REST APIs and service-oriented architectures
- Experience with Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, Celery, MySQL/Postgres, or similar
- Strong communication and collaborative problem-solving skills
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services primarily using Python
- Lead technical delivery across key engineering and platform initiatives
- Contribute to architectural decisions and the evolution of distributed systems across the platform
- Build clean, testable, maintainable, and observable software solutions
- Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Data teams to deliver high-quality solutions
- Drive engineering best practices across clean code, testing, CI/CD, refactoring, and maintainability
- Work within asynchronous and event-driven architectures using modern backend technologies
- Mentor and support engineers through technical guidance and collaboration
- Actively contribute to team and cross-team ceremonies, technical discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Support troubleshooting and problem-solving across systems and teams where required
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