Senior Python Backend Lead (FastAPI) | AWS Microservices

Bairesdev; Buenos Aires; Hybrid; ARS 108,178,000 - 169,994,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USD-based pay

Remote and office options

Flexible schedule / Flextime

Professional growth

Job summary

AgileEngine is seeking a Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable systems for a Product-led engineering team. This role focuses on Java and/or Kotlin with Spring Boot, GraphQL, MongoDB, and Aurora MySQL on AWS, delivering high-performance, cloud-native solutions.

You'll work across squads to improve observability, compliance, and cost-savings while partnering with product managers and engineers to ship reliable software. Strong backend experience and modern tech are required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend-focused software development experience.
• Proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin.
• Experience with MongoDB Atlas and Aurora MySQL on AWS.
• Experience building cloud-native distributed systems on AWS and Spring Boot.
• API development with GraphQL (Netflix DGS).

Responsibilities

• Take on lower-priority engineering work including compliance and maintenance.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, performant software systems.
• Contribute to system architecture with data-driven validation.
• Participate in code and design reviews to uphold standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, data scientists, designers.
• Work with Product Manager to clarify requirements and focus on coding, testing, and documentation.

Skills

Java / Kotlin

Spring Boot

MongoDB Atlas

Aurora MySQL

AWS

GraphQL (Netflix DGS)

Microservices

API development

Tools

Kafka

SQS

Terraform

REST

Job description

AgileEngine is seeking a Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable systems for a Product-led engineering team. This role focuses on Java and/or Kotlin with Spring Boot, GraphQL, MongoDB, and Aurora MySQL on AWS, delivering high-performance, cloud-native solutions.

You'll work across squads to improve observability, compliance, and cost-savings while partnering with product managers and engineers to ship reliable software. Strong backend experience and modern tech are required.