Backend Engineer

Primetag; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote role

Medical insurance for all team members

Periodic in-person team gatherings in欧

Job summary

Primetag is seeking a full-time backend engineer for a fully remote role. You will build and maintain backend services and data pipelines in Python and FastAPI, within a microservices framework.

Emphasis on performance, cost efficiency, documentation, testing, and observability drives production-grade work. You will design APIs, evolve microservices, and contribute to platform components while reducing technical debt.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience focused on Python backend development.
• Hands-on experience with Django DRF, Flask, or FastAPI.
• Strong REST API design, software design patterns, and clean architecture.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and production Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, observability, and event-driven messaging (RabbitMQ or Kafka).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs using Python and FastAPI.
• Maintain and evolve core microservices, databases, and platform components.
• Build and improve data ingestion and crawling pipelines.
• Keep the platform scalable, reliable, and maintainable as load grows.
• Contribute to shared platform building blocks and engineering guidelines.
• Refactor systems, reduce technical debt, and improve observability.
• Debug production issues and assist in incident resolution.

Skills

Python backend

FastAPI

Django/Flask

REST API design

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Databases

Observability

Messaging (RabbitMQ/Kafka)

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Role overview

This full-time remote role focuses on building and maintaining backend services, infrastructure, core microservices, data pipelines, and the observability platform for a data-intensive analytics product. The position produces production-grade code with a strong emphasis on performance, cost efficiency, documentation, testing, and APM metrics.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs, primarily using Python and FastAPI in a microservices architecture
• Maintain and evolve core microservices, databases, and supporting platform components
• Build, maintain, and improve data ingestion and crawling pipelines
• Help keep the platform scalable, reliable, and maintainable as load and complexity grow
• Contribute to shared platform building blocks, including infrastructure components, internal libraries, and engineering guidelines
• Continuously improve existing systems through refactoring, technical debt reduction, and improved observability
• Debug production issues and contribute to incident resolution when required

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on Python backend development
• Hands‑on experience with API frameworks such as Django DRF, Flask, or FastAPI
• Solid understanding of REST API design, software design patterns, and clean architecture concepts
• Knowledge of system design and software architecture for production systems
• Experience with major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and containerized environments, ideally Kubernetes in production
• Working knowledge of relational and non‑relational databases, observability practices, and event‑oriented technologies like RabbitMQ or Kafka

Nice to have

• Experience operating or contributing to data‑intensive systems (ingestion, processing, storage, or search)
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote role; must be a fiscal resident of Portugal
• Flexible core hours within European time (9am-6pm, 4 required hours per day)
• Comprehensive medical insurance for all team members
• Periodic in‑person team gatherings via temporary European offices