Senior Python Engineer — Remote Real-Time Docs

PandaDoc; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 3,069,000 - 4,609,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global exposure

Flexible work

Ownership & growth

Work-life balance

Competitive compensation

Job summary

PandaDoc is hiring a Senior Python Engineer for the Content engineering team. You will own back-end systems powering real-time collaborative editing, data persistence, and event-driven pipelines across a microservices landscape.

You will work on a scalable architecture, ensure reliability and observability, and contribute to AI-powered capabilities in a remote-friendly environment with opportunities to visit offices in Warsaw, Lisbon, or Kyiv.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Python development experience in production environments.
• Strong experience with relational databases: SQL, schema design, migrations, query optimization
• Solid hands-on experience with message queues and event-driven architectures (Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ or similar)
• Deep understanding of AsyncIO and concurrent systems
• Experience building and operating microservice architectures at scale
• Comfortable reasoning about distributed systems: consistency, ordering, failure modes
• Understanding of the full development lifecycle, from requirements to deployment to production monitoring
• Nice to have: experience building or integrating AI agents, LLM-powered workflows, or agentic systems

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the backend systems that power real-time collaborative document editing for tens of thousands of concurrent users
• Own the content model and data persistence layer: schema design, migrations, compatibility, and long-term maintainability as the product grows
• Build and maintain event-driven pipelines (Kafka, NATS) that process high volumes of frontend interactions and keep document state consistent across services
• Contribute to the reliability, observability, and operational excellence of a large fleet of Python microservices
• Ship product features end-to-end, from backend architecture to production monitoring, and care about how they behave after they ship
• Contribute to our growing investment in AI-powered capabilities, including agentic document workflows

Skills

Python

AsyncIO

Microservices

Distributed systems

SQL

Kafka

NATS

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

NATS

RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Grafana

Job description

PandaDoc is hiring a Senior Python Engineer for the Content engineering team. You will own back-end systems powering real-time collaborative editing, data persistence, and event-driven pipelines across a microservices landscape.

You will work on a scalable architecture, ensure reliability and observability, and contribute to AI-powered capabilities in a remote-friendly environment with opportunities to visit offices in Warsaw, Lisbon, or Kyiv.