Senior Backend Engineer (Product Core Team)

This fully remote role is for a Senior Backend Engineer to help grow AppFollow globally. You’ll work on core backend systems that power user interaction with product data, enable fast and efficient access to source-agnostic datasets, and support flexible analytics and reporting capabilities across multiple data types.

About the Role

• Develop and optimize core backend functionality of the AppFollow product
• Build and maintain systems for user interaction with product data
• Design, develop, and support a source-agnostic data storage layer that enables efficient, fast, and reliable data delivery to end users
• Develop and support systems for generating insights from various types of customer and product data (including ratings, reviews, and other data sources), with a focus on flexible and custom reporting
• Support internal and public APIs for core data entities, following API-first principles
• Design, build, maintain and document an efficient, testable, reliable, secure and scalable codebase.
• Contribute with other developers to design and improve the entire system architecture.
• Interaction with legacy services
• Collaborating with the Platform team to deploy the application to various environments and ensure smooth operation, adopt accepted standards, practices and processes to the maintainable systems.

About you

• 5+ years of software development experience in backend
• 3+ years of asyncio experience in Python development.
• Proficiency in FastAPI for API endpoint development.
• Strong SQL skills, particularly in MySQL or PostgreSQL, Experience with ORM frameworks (preferably SQLAlchemy
• Experience with NoSQL DBs (MongoDB)
• Experience with message-brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
• Experience with unit testing (Pytest).
• Upper intermediate English proficiency

It would be nice to have

• Experience with cloud-based services (AWS)
• API-first experience: designing, building, and evolving systems with well-defined, stable, and consumer-oriented APIs
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with long-running migrations or large-scale refactorings in complex or legacy codebases

Benefits we offer

• Full-time remote job. Though you’re always welcome to spend time with us in monthly basis in Belgrade/Batumi/Tbilisi.
• Paid Vacation and Sick leaves. Take the time you need to stay motivated, charged, and balanced. By prior agreement, you can have days off for special occasions
• Generous social benefits package including health insurance, equipment reimbursement, home office moderation bonus, and many more
• Stock options bonus according to the employee stock ownership plan
• You’ll have executive-level visibility into how the company is run and performing. We are always ready to provide dedicated support and fast-track your onboarding, including giving you the tools you need to be successful.

The biggest benefit is our awesome AppFollow team. We're a team of open-minded and friendly high-skilled professionals that enjoy creating a great product, growing together, and supporting each other.

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