Senior Backend Engineer — Event Orchestration & Integrations

Synopsys; Moreira; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Synopsys, Inc. is hiring an experienced backend engineer to own the event orchestration engine and integrations across the Operations Project Management platform. You will design, implement, and maintain reliable, observable workflows with strong Python skills, REST APIs, data pipelines, and AI-enabled tooling.

You will collaborate as a technical peer to shape architecture and testing standards. You will lead practical improvements, ensure data consistency, and monitor production health in a

Qualifications

• Degree or Master in Informatics Engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with a strong track record in system integrations.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven or job-orchestration systems, schedulers, workflow engines, queues and failure modes.
• Strong Python development skills.
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL) and SQL, including data modeling and migrations.
• Experience designing REST APIs, caching strategies, authentication and authorization (OAuth2).
• Hands-on experience with AI development workflows using agent-based approaches and tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar.
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, and GitLab CI or similar CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the event orchestration service, including scheduled jobs, chained events, retries, and variable extraction for reliability and observability.
• Design and deliver integrations with internal and third-party systems via REST APIs, databases, and data warehouses with idempotent synchronization and reconciliation.
• Define platform patterns for API design, caching, authentication, and service-to-service communication; document decisions with Architecture Decision Records.
• Establish testing patterns across services (unit, integration, contract tests) and CI gates; promote adoption by service owners.
• Work within AI agent development workflows across requirements, development, testing, MR reviews, and ticket management with quality gates.
• Maintain accuracy of agents, instructions, and knowledge bases; align with platform changes.
• Act as primary technical reviewer and mentor for integration design and implementation.
• Manage production health, performance, and incident follow-up in a Kubernetes-based environment.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Event-driven systems

System integrations

REST APIs

Relational databases

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Django REST Framework

Architectural decisions

Education

Degree in Informatics Engineering or related

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

MCP servers

GitLab CI

Job description

Synopsys, Inc. is hiring an experienced backend engineer to own the event orchestration engine and integrations across the Operations Project Management platform. You will design, implement, and maintain reliable, observable workflows with strong Python skills, REST APIs, data pipelines, and AI-enabled tooling.

You will collaborate as a technical peer to shape architecture and testing standards. You will lead practical improvements, ensure data consistency, and monitor production health in a