Staff Backend Engineer, Brands Platform | Hybrid/Remote

Manychat; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid onboarding

Relocation support

Health insurance for you and family

Professional development budget

Flexible benefits budget

Hybrid work and flexible time off

Free meals and snacks in office

Annual offsites and team building

Job summary

Manychat is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for Brands to own the technical side of a new product. You’ll set architecture and priorities, deciding what lives in Python services versus the PHP-based platform, with room to influence major design choices.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Security, and Infrastructure, defining reliability, performance, and observability requirements, and leading system-wide changes in a fast‑growing AI‑powered environment.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Python backend development and a broad view of backend architecture.
• Strong product mindset with ability to relate trade-offs to user impact.
• Experience owning architecture and production operations of a product or large area.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, data flows, retries and idempotency.
• Knowledge of deploying backend apps in production, with CI/CD and IaC.
• Security basics: authentication, authorization, data isolation.
• Excellent English for technical discussions and documentation.
• Hands-on PHP experience is a plus, plus familiarity with AI-enabled workflows.

Responsibilities

• Set architecture and technical priorities for Brands, including service boundaries and data models.
• Decide which logic belongs in Python Brands services vs the PHP-based Manychat platform.
• Lead system-wide changes, plan data migrations, gradual rollouts, and rollbacks.
• Define reliability and performance requirements for key workflows, with metrics and observability.
• Identify root causes of slowdowns using metrics, logs, and tracing across services.
• Collaborate with Security, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to balance fixes and trade-offs.
• Work with Product on scope and approach, suggesting simpler options when possible.
• Document key choices and perform design and code reviews to share knowledge.

Skills

Python backend

Backend architecture

Product mindset

Architecture ownership

Distributed systems

Deployment in production

App security basics

English proficiency

PHP experience

ETL/DWH

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

AI in development

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform/Terragrunt

PostgreSQL

Redis

Celery

FastAPI

Pydantic

SQLAlchemy

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform/Terragrunt

PostgreSQL

Redis

Celery

SQLAlchemy

Job description

Manychat is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for Brands to own the technical side of a new product. You’ll set architecture and priorities, deciding what lives in Python services versus the PHP-based platform, with room to influence major design choices.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Security, and Infrastructure, defining reliability, performance, and observability requirements, and leading system-wide changes in a fast‑growing AI‑powered environment.