Remote Backend Python Engineer - Real-time Pipelines & AI

Suntech Innovation; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical insurance

Annual flight allowance

Visa sponsorship

Annual leave

Learning and conference budget

AI coding assistant

Job summary

Suntech Innovation in Dubai seeks a backend engineer to own production Python services end to end. You will build APIs, data pipelines, and background workers inside a SaaS platform for iGaming, collaborating with a small, skilled team.

You should have 3+ years of backend experience, strong Python, and experience with Redis, Kafka, SQL, and Docker. You’ll contribute to design discussions, operate services in production, and thrive in a fast-paced, hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong Python, async patterns, and data processing.
• Deep SQL skills with complex queries and transactions.
• Experience with Redis, Kafka, and various DB stores.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production Python services: APIs, stream consumers, pipelines, feature stores, scheduled jobs, background workers.
• Write and tune the SQL and schemas these services depend on.
• Uphold engineering standards: code quality, testing, observability, deployment discipline.
• Productionize data scientists' experimentation into reliable services.
• Diagnose and fix problems in production.
• Contribute to design discussions and implementation approaches.
• Review code and help raise the bar for what the team ships.
• Participate in on-call rotation for the systems you build and operate.

Skills

Python backend

Redis

Kafka

SQL & indexing

Docker & CI/CD

Tools

Docker

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

Job description

Suntech Innovation in Dubai seeks a backend engineer to own production Python services end to end. You will build APIs, data pipelines, and background workers inside a SaaS platform for iGaming, collaborating with a small, skilled team.

You should have 3+ years of backend experience, strong Python, and experience with Redis, Kafka, SQL, and Docker. You’ll contribute to design discussions, operate services in production, and thrive in a fast-paced, hybrid environment.