Senior Python Backend Engineer – AI-Driven, Hybrid

Futurewhiz; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 54,684 - 62,496; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

24 vacation days

Pension plan

Health insurance

€600 learning budget

Coaching via Inuka

Goodhabitz training

StudyGo & Squla access

MacBook

Transit card/OV card

Job summary

Futurewhiz in Amsterdam is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to own the backend direction of Squla/StudyGo integration. You will shape engineering practices, drive architecture, and mentor the team while delivering high-quality, scalable services.

In a hybrid setup, you’ll lead technical decisions, collaborate with PM and cross-functional teams, and help define AI-driven workflows that enhance product value and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior Backend Developer building production systems.
• Strong Python expertise and ownership from idea to production.
• Daily use of agent-driven development and task delegation to coding agents.
• Experience designing API-driven backends and data modelling with MySQL.
• Knowledge of software design patterns, automated testing, and clean code practices.
• Ability to mentor engineers and review production-bound work.
• Comfort working from goals and ambiguity in a multidisciplinary team.
• Fluency in English, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend planning and technical decision‑making with PM and multidisciplinary team.
• Define AI usage in engineering: design workflows around agent delegation, parallel execution and review guardrails.
• Own significant technical areas, ensuring quality, system health and maintainability over time.
• Set up guardrails, reviews and architecture to allow safe contributions from other disciplines, including AI‑assisted production releases.
• Work broadly across the stack where it keeps momentum high: backend, frontend, data and infrastructure when useful.
• Take ownership of team results: ship, measure impact on learning and business outcomes, and take action.
• Mentor and act as a sparring partner for the team.
• Foster a strong engineering culture through code reviews, knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Skills

Senior Backend Developer

Python

Agent-driven development

API-driven architecture

MySQL data modelling

Software design patterns

Automated testing

Mentoring engineers

English fluency

Security and risk judgment

Tools

AWS

Job description

Futurewhiz in Amsterdam is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to own the backend direction of Squla/StudyGo integration. You will shape engineering practices, drive architecture, and mentor the team while delivering high-quality, scalable services.

In a hybrid setup, you’ll lead technical decisions, collaborate with PM and cross-functional teams, and help define AI-driven workflows that enhance product value and performance.