Staff Backend Architect, Brands Platform & AI

Manychat, Inc; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid onboarding

Relocation support

Health insurance

Development budget

Flexible benefits

Hybrid work

Meal perks

Team offsites

AI tooling access

Job summary

Manychat, Inc. is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for Brands to own the technical side of a new product. You’ll define architecture, set priorities, and decide what lives in Python services vs the PHP-based platform, with substantial individual impact.

You'll collaborate with Product, Security, and Infrastructure to deliver reliable, scalable systems across brands and campaigns, shaping the future of Manychat for Brands with clear design reviews and strong ownership.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Python backend development and architecture.
• Strong product mindset with collaboration with Product.
• Experience owning architecture and production operations.
• Understanding of distributed systems, API contracts, retries and idempotency.
• Knowledge of deployment, networking, and external dependencies.
• Security basics: authentication, authorization, data isolation.
• Comfort in a fast-changing environment and ownership.
• Strong English for technical discussions and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture and priorities for Brands with Engineering Manager and team.
• Decide which logic belongs in Python Brands services vs PHP Manychat platform.
• Lead system-level changes with milestones, data migrations, rollouts and rollbacks.
• Define reliability and performance metrics for key Brands workflows.
• Find root causes of slowdowns using metrics, logs, and tracing.
• Work with Security, Infrastructure, and Platform on solutions and trade-offs.
• Collaborate with Product on scope and simpler options when possible.
• Document key choices, perform design and code reviews.

Skills

Python backend

Distributed systems

Product mindset

English proficiency

Security basics

Ownership & proactivity

Tools

FastAPI

Pydantic

SQLAlchemy

PostgreSQL

Redis

Celery

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Terragrunt

Job description

Manychat, Inc. is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for Brands to own the technical side of a new product. You’ll define architecture, set priorities, and decide what lives in Python services vs the PHP-based platform, with substantial individual impact.

You'll collaborate with Product, Security, and Infrastructure to deliver reliable, scalable systems across brands and campaigns, shaping the future of Manychat for Brands with clear design reviews and strong ownership.