Senior Backend Engineer - Italy

Photocert; Italia; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Photocert is seeking a Senior Cloud Backend Developer to join its cloud engineering team in Italy. The role involves designing scalable serverless services using AWS technologies. Candidates should have over 5 years of backend experience and proficiency in Node.js, TypeScript, and Python.

This position offers the opportunity to work with a senior international team on high-volume media processing. A strong understanding of AWS serverless environments and security practices is essential.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English / Polish.
• 5+ years of backend development experience.
• At least 3 years in AWS serverless environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build serverless backend services using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
• Implement secure authentication and authorisation flows.
• Build and maintain asynchronous processing pipelines.

Skills

Backend development

AWS serverless environments

Node.js

TypeScript

Python

DynamoDB data modelling

Security best practices

DevOps practices

Job description

Photocert is a media forensics company building advanced AI solutions that detect and localize tampering in digital images and PDFs. Our technology helps insurance companies and enterprise clients verify the authenticity of submitted content at scale.

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Backend Developer to join our cloud engineering team. You will design and build scalable serverless services in a production AWS environment, working closely with our senior international team on a platform that processes large volumes of media in real time.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build serverless backend services using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, and DynamoDB
• Implement secure authentication and authorisation flows with AWS Cognito and OAuth2/OIDC
• Build and maintain asynchronous processing pipelines for document and image workloads
• Contribute to API design and backend architecture decisions
• Integrate AI/LLM tooling to improve code quality and development workflows
• Participate in code reviews and help maintain a high engineering standard

Qualifications

• Fluent in English / Polish
• 5+ years of backend development, with at least 3 years in AWS serverless environments
• Strong Node.js / TypeScript / Python
• DynamoDB data modelling (GSI/LSI, access patterns)
• Python for scripting and data processing
• Security best practices: JWT, IAM, secrets management
• Working knowledge of DevOps practices — CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and infrastructure as code