Senior Python Backend Engineer - Scale Payments & Events

Eventim Benelux; Groningen; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 vacation days

Hybrid work after onboarding (2 days w

Relocation budget

Visa sponsorship and 30% ruling

Remote working budget

Mental health support

Commuting reimbursement

Job summary

Paylogic, the ticketing and event operations platform, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build Python services at scale. You will own payment flows, payout logic, and REST API integrations, ensuring high reliability for fan-facing and organizer-facing systems.

Based in the Netherlands, you will work from Amsterdam or Groningen in a hybrid setup, contributing to architecture discussions and maintaining system performance under load.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with 4+ years writing production Python at a professional level.
• Proven experience designing and building REST APIs from scratch; understand versioning, error handling and authentication.
• Production-level experience with SQLAlchemy, including complex queries and relationship management.
• Strong working knowledge of relational databases, indexing and query optimization.
• Experience with async processing and task queues such as Celery.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building Python services that are production-ready from day one.
• Owning and shipping payment flows, payout logic, and REST API integrations end-to-end.
• Diagnosing and solving performance problems at scale.
• Driving technical decisions and contributing to architecture discussions.
• Keeping existing systems maintainable while shipping new features.

Skills

Python

REST APIs

SQLAlchemy

Celery

Redis

MySQL

Async processing

Flask

FastAPI

Distributed systems

Tools

Git

Job description

Paylogic, the ticketing and event operations platform, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build Python services at scale. You will own payment flows, payout logic, and REST API integrations, ensuring high reliability for fan-facing and organizer-facing systems.

Based in the Netherlands, you will work from Amsterdam or Groningen in a hybrid setup, contributing to architecture discussions and maintaining system performance under load.