Senior Python Engineer: Backend & Data (Remote)

Smart Working; Lahore; Remote; PKR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Working in Pakistan is hiring a Senior Python Engineer (Backend / Data) to strengthen backend development and data engineering capabilities for production systems. This long-term, remote-first role focuses on building and maintaining reliable production systems with an emphasis on data quality and scalability.

You will work with the engineering team and a DevOps/SRE engineer on infrastructure, deployments, and releases, taking ownership from design through production support while

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years Python backend development.
• 3+ years of data pipelines and data engineering experience.
• 3+ years of AWS experience with cloud-based backend services.
• 3+ years of Python web frameworks (Django/FastAPI).
• 3+ years of PostgreSQL experience and data modelling.
• 2+ years of NoSQL/search databases experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain data pipelines in Python on AWS.
• Build and maintain backend services and APIs using Django and FastAPI.
• Model, query and optimise data across PostgreSQL and search/NoSQL databases.
• Deploy and run services on Kubernetes with the DevOps engineer.
• Take end-to-end ownership of design, testing, reviews and production support.
• Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams on deployments and releases.
• Maintain high data quality, correctness and testing in production.

Skills

Python

Backend development

Data pipelines

Django/FastAPI

CI/CD

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

SQL/NoSQL

Kubernetes

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Tools

AWS

Django

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

NoSQL databases

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

DynamoDB

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Smart Working in Pakistan is hiring a Senior Python Engineer (Backend / Data) to strengthen backend development and data engineering capabilities for production systems. This long-term, remote-first role focuses on building and maintaining reliable production systems with an emphasis on data quality and scalability.

You will work with the engineering team and a DevOps/SRE engineer on infrastructure, deployments, and releases, taking ownership from design through production support while