Staff Backend Engineer, Brands — Architect AI-Driven Services

Manychat; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Health insurance for family

Professional development budget

Flexible benefits package

Hybrid work

Free meals and snacks in office

Annual offsites and team building

Job summary

Manychat is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for Brands to own the technical side of a new product. You’ll set architecture, priorities, and decide what lives in Python services versus the PHP-based platform.

It’s an individual contributor role with significant impact on product direction and scalability. You’ll collaborate with Product, security, and infra teams, drive data migrations and rollouts, and help define reliability, performance, and observability across Brands workflows.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Python backend development and architecture beyond a single language.
• Strong product mindset; partner with Product and explain trade-offs in user terms.
• Experience owning architecture and production operations of a product or large technical area.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, data flows, and reliable data ownership.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture and technical priorities for Brands with the team.
• Decide which logic belongs in Python-based Brands services vs PHP-based platform.
• Lead large system-level changes with clear milestones, migrations, rollouts, and rollbacks.
• Define reliability and performance requirements; establish metrics and observability.

Skills

Python backend development

Distributed systems

Product mindset

Architecture ownership

Production operations

English communication

Security basics

CI/CD

AWS/Kubernetes

Tools

PHP

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform/Terragrunt

Job description

Manychat is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for Brands to own the technical side of a new product. You’ll set architecture, priorities, and decide what lives in Python services versus the PHP-based platform.

It’s an individual contributor role with significant impact on product direction and scalability. You’ll collaborate with Product, security, and infra teams, drive data migrations and rollouts, and help define reliability, performance, and observability across Brands workflows.