Senior Backend Engineer - Remote with Flexible Hours

AgileEngine, LLC.; Sur; Presencial; COP 367.557.000 - 551.335.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Growth without limits

Competitive compensation

Flexibility

Meaningful, modern projects

Collaborative culture

Descripción de la vacante

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and maintain the application services and REST APIs that surface insights and scoring for a data analytics platform.

You will develop Python services using FastAPI and SQLAlchemy with rigorous static typing, manage background task processing with Celery and Redis on EKS, and partner with a dedicated data engineer on the S3/Glue/Athena pipeline and AWS Bedrock-based scoring layer.

Formación

• 5–7 years of backend software development experience.
• Strong Python proficiency — FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and modern tooling (uv) with static typing applied rigorously.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building REST APIs consumed by a front-end, including versioning, contracts, and error semantics.
• Solid experience integrating third-party APIs and reconciling data from heterogeneous sources.
• Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL) and database migrations.
• Hands-on experience with asynchronous/background task processing (Celery, Redis) and Redis.
• Comfortable with containerized deployment (Docker) and working against Kubernetes/EKS.
• Enough familiarity with object-storage-backed data lakes and serverless query engines (S3/Glue/Athena) to query them and collaborate credibly with the data engineer.
• Comfortable calling LLM APIs from application code and reasoning about AWS Bedrock constraints.
• High comfort level working in a Mac/Linux terminal environment.
• Practical use of AI-assisted development tools with critical judgment.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and maintain scalable backend services and REST APIs.
• Integrate third-party and internal data sources at the application layer.
• Build containerized Python services and background workers on EKS.
• Develop and test AWS Lambda/Step Functions and containerized systems like Beanstalk/Fargate.
• Implement authentication and authorization with Auth0 and OpenFGA.
• Collaborate with data engineer on S3/Glue/Athena and Bedrock-based scoring layer.
• Leverage Claude/Bedrock for rapid implementation while critiquing AI outputs.
• Coordinate daily with engineers via Slack and Google Meet.

Conocimientos

Backend development

Python

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

Asynchronous processing

Static typing

Soft skills

Herramientas

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

Celery

RQ

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

Auth0

OpenFGA

AWS Bedrock

S3/Glue/Athena

Descripción del empleo

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and maintain the application services and REST APIs that surface insights and scoring for a data analytics platform.

You will develop Python services using FastAPI and SQLAlchemy with rigorous static typing, manage background task processing with Celery and Redis on EKS, and partner with a dedicated data engineer on the S3/Glue/Athena pipeline and AWS Bedrock-based scoring layer.