Senior FastAPI Engineer — AI Backend & Systems Architect

iFindTech Ltd; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

iFindTech Ltd. is seeking a Senior FastAPI / Python Engineer to own the backend powering its AI products. You’ll design APIs, data pipelines and an orchestration layer, handling retrieval, tool-calling, streaming and long-running jobs.

You’ll work across complex AI reliability, performance, scalability and data privacy challenges with full ownership of architecture and technical decisions in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building backend systems in production
• 6+ years Python
• 3+ years FastAPI
• Strong PostgreSQL / SQL
• 2+ years Redis
• Strong experience designing and building production APIs
• Experience with async / distributed systems and background processing
• Strong understanding of reliability, scalability and production performance
• Comfortable taking end-to-end ownership of backend systems
• Experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or Copilot
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment

Skills

Backend systems

Python

FastAPI

PostgreSQL/SQL

Redis

Production APIs design

Async / distributed systems

Ownership of backend systems

AI coding tools

Startup environment experience

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Copilot

Job description

iFindTech Ltd. is seeking a Senior FastAPI / Python Engineer to own the backend powering its AI products. You’ll design APIs, data pipelines and an orchestration layer, handling retrieval, tool-calling, streaming and long-running jobs.

You’ll work across complex AI reliability, performance, scalability and data privacy challenges with full ownership of architecture and technical decisions in a fast-moving startup.