Principal Backend Engineer (Architect Track)
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Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Core hours GMT+3Full-TimePrincipal
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonGCPKubernetesFastAPIPostgresRedis
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience with deep hands-on Python expertise.
- Production experience with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Celery, Postgres, and Redis.
- Strong AWS architecture experience including EKS, Lambda, RDS, SQS, SNS, and EventBridge.
- Working knowledge of GCP.
- Experience designing high-load, latency-sensitive, and geo-distributed systems.
- Proven ability to make pragmatic judgments on build vs. buy vs. assemble options.
- Deliberate working style: researching, weighing tradeoffs, documenting decisions, and clear communication.
- Nice to have: Production experience with LLM integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI).
- Nice to have: Active use of agentic coding tools like Claude Code or Cursor.
- Nice to have: Experience with EdTech or high-scale consumer platforms.
Responsibilities
- Define backend architecture standards and lead major technical decisions across teams.
- Drive the transition from a monolith toward a more modular, service-oriented backend.
- Develop service blueprints covering API conventions, EDA patterns, testing, observability, and deployment.
- Design cloud architecture on AWS and GCP including multi-region and geo-distributed solutions.
- Optimize high-load, real-time infrastructure, focusing on latency budgets, caching, and capacity.
- Evaluate and implement build vs. buy strategies, including managed services and no-code tools.
- Contribute production-level code, refactors, and POCs for product-critical features.
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