Backend Developer

GloPros; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP participation

Annual learning budget

Regular team offsites

Hybrid work model

Job summary

GloPros is seeking a hands-on Backend Developer to strengthen our Python/Django backend, APIs, and data models. You will design scalable services, ensure performance, and integrate external systems while contributing to CI/CD and testing.

You’ll split time between backend engineering and agentic AI work, with Amsterdam-based hybrid work (four days in office, one day remote). The role emphasizes maintainable code and production-readiness.

Qualifications

• 3-7 years of backend development experience in Python.
• Hands-on Django and REST Framework experience.
• Strong API design, auth, and background processing knowledge.
• Solid PostgreSQL modelling, indexing, and migrations.
• Experience with Git, Docker, CI/CD, AWS, and IaC (Terraform).
• Product-minded, ownership from implementation to production support.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and scale Python/Django backend services and APIs.
• Design API contracts and collaborate with frontend and product teams.
• Model and optimize data in PostgreSQL with proper indexing and integrity.
• Build async workflows with Celery/Redis and observability.
• Integrate external platforms and maintain robust error handling.
• Improve architecture with clear boundaries and test coverage.
• Contribute to AWS infrastructure and Terraform-managed environments.
• Develop agentic AI capabilities aligned with user value.

Skills

Python

Django

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

AWS

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD

Testing

Tools

Git

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD Tools

Job description

GloPros is a Recruitment & Consulting company, powered by an AI-platform. We deliver global professionals across every industry, high-skilled and available as permanent hires, freelancers or consultants. You'll join a team that values professionalism, integrity, and continuous improvement.

As part of our tech team, you will build and strengthen the backend systems that power the platform: business-critical APIs, data workflows, third-party integrations, search, and selected agentic AI features used by recruiters and candidates.

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Backend Developer who enjoys turning product requirements into reliable, maintainable software. Your primary focus will be our Python/Django backend: designing APIs, modelling domains and data, improving performance, and raising engineering quality across the codebase.

Agentic AI is an important part of our roadmap, but this is not a pure AI or ML role. You will integrate LLMs and retrieval components where they solve a real user problem, and you may build or improve agents for matching, outreach, enrichment, and workflow automation. We expect the role to be approximately 75-80% backend/platform engineering and 20-25% agentic AI work.

What You’ll Do

• Develop, maintain, and scale backend services in Python and Django, including REST APIs, domain logic, data models, and background jobs.
• Design clear API contracts and collaborate with frontend developers and product stakeholders from discovery through production rollout.
• Model and optimize data in PostgreSQL; improve query performance, indexing, transactions, and data integrity.
• Build reliable asynchronous workflows using Celery and Redis, with appropriate retries, idempotency, and observability.
• Integrate external platforms and APIs, including ATS, HR, sourcing, and recruitment systems, with robust error handling and monitoring.
• Improve backend architecture incrementally, separating business logic from views and serializers and establishing clear service, selector, and domain boundaries.
• Write automated tests, review code, investigate production issues, and improve CI/CD practices so the team can ship safely and frequently.
• Contribute to AWS infrastructure and Terraform-managed environments together with the wider engineering team.
• Build and productionize selected agentic AI capabilities, such as candidate enrichment, matching explanations, outreach drafting, or workflow automation.
• Integrate LLM APIs and search/retrieval components with attention to latency, cost, privacy, evaluation, fallbacks, and operational reliability.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools pragmatically for code review, testing, documentation, and codebase navigation.

What We’re Looking For

• 3-7 years of professional backend development experience, with strong production experience in Python.
• Hands-on experience with Django and Django REST Framework, or comparable experience and a willingness to work deeply in Django.
• Strong understanding of REST API design, authentication and authorization, background processing, and integration patterns.
• Solid PostgreSQL knowledge, including relational modelling, migrations, indexing, and query optimization.
• Experience writing clean, testable code and working with automated tests, code review, Git, Docker, and CI/CD.
• Experience deploying or operating services in AWS and familiarity with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform.
• A practical product mindset: you clarify requirements, make sensible trade-offs, and take ownership from implementation through production support.
• Clear communication and a collaborative approach to working with backend, frontend, product, and other stakeholders.
• Interest in agentic AI and LLM-powered product features; production experience is valuable, but deep ML research experience is not required.

Bonus Points

• Experience with OpenSearch, Weaviate, FAISS, Pinecone, or another search/vector database.
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, hybrid search, embeddings, or LLM evaluation.
• Familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or a comparable orchestration framework.
• Experience building AI agents, tool-calling workflows, voice agents, or human-in-the-loop automation.
• Experience with high-volume webhooks, third-party integrations, or recruitment/HR technology.
• Familiarity with domain-driven design or an opinionated Django service/selector architecture.
• Experience improving observability, application security, or performance in a production SaaS platform.

How We Work

• Backend reliability and maintainability come first; AI is used where it creates measurable product value.
• We make architectural improvements incrementally while continuing to deliver customer-facing features.
• Technical decisions and important agreements are documented so the team can work with shared context.
• New standards are proposed, discussed, and adopted collaboratively.
• Engineers are encouraged to bring ideas, challenge assumptions, and own outcomes—not only tickets.

What Success Looks Like

• You ship dependable backend features that are easy for others to understand, test, and extend.
• You improve API quality, database performance, background processing, and production visibility in the areas you touch.
• You help reduce architectural friction and move business logic toward clearer, well-tested boundaries.
• You contribute agentic features that are evaluated, monitored, cost-conscious, and useful in real recruitment workflows.
• You raise team quality through thoughtful code reviews, documentation, and constructive technical collaboration.
• Amsterdam-based hybrid working: four days in the office and one day remote.
• Competitive salary and ESOP participation.
• Annual learning and development budget.
• Access to modern AI tooling and infrastructure.
• Regular team offsite, collaborative engineering culture.