Senior Backend Engineer — Django, FinTech & AI (Melbourne)

Teamified; Philippines; Remote; PHP 5,256,000 - 7,884,000; Full time

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Job summary

Teamified is hiring a senior backend engineer to own core services and contribute to scalable, AI-assisted engineering workflows. You will ship production code in a fast-moving team based in Melbourne, Australia, collaborating with engineering and product leaders to build a modern fintech/remote-work platform.

You'll work on payments, onboarding, and architecture improvements, while mentoring peers and ensuring robust test coverage.

Qualifications

• 6+ years backend engineering, with production Django applications.
• Strong Django ORM, migrations, permissions, DRF and async/background tasks.
• Relational data modeling with PostgreSQL.
• Experience shipping on cloud infrastructure with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and security best practices.
• Ownership from design to production and accountability.
• Clear written and verbal communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and own backend services in Django and DRF powering web portal, mobile app and white-label environments.
• Work on the payments core: card issuing/lifecycle, spend controls, transactions, webhooks.
• Build and harden features and integrate workflow enhancements across the platform.
• Leverage AI tooling and ship AI-powered product features.
• Lead technical design: write design docs/ADRs, run decomposition sessions, simplify architecture.
• Raise the engineering bar: expand test coverage and robust SDLC/AI-DLC practices.
• Own production quality: monitoring/Datadog, incident response, enterprise on-call SLAs.
• Review code, mentor engineers and elevate AI tooling in development.

Skills

Django

Django REST Framework

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Auth0/Okta

Testing mindset

Datadog

Tools

Datadog

Job description

Teamified is hiring a senior backend engineer to own core services and contribute to scalable, AI-assisted engineering workflows. You will ship production code in a fast-moving team based in Melbourne, Australia, collaborating with engineering and product leaders to build a modern fintech/remote-work platform.

You'll work on payments, onboarding, and architecture improvements, while mentoring peers and ensuring robust test coverage.