Remote Backend Engineer (Portugal) - Python & Microservices

Primetag; EE. UU.; A distancia; USD 120.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical insurance

Periodic in-person team gatherings in/

Descripción de la vacante

Primetag is seeking a backend software engineer for a fully remote role focused on building and maintaining backend services, data pipelines, and the observability platform for a data-intensive analytics product. You will deliver production-grade code with emphasis on performance, cost efficiency, documentation, testing, and APM metrics.

Responsibilities include designing and maintaining microservices with Python (FastAPI/Django/Flask), evolving databases, and improving data ingestion pipelines.

Formación

• 3+ years of software engineering with Python backend focus.
• Hands-on with API frameworks: Django DRF, Flask, or FastAPI.
• Strong understanding of REST, design patterns, and clean architecture.
• Knowledge of production system design and cloud platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production and cloud environments.
• Familiar with relational and non-relational databases, observability, and messaging (RabbitMQ or Kafka).

Responsabilidades

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs using Python/FastAPI in a microservices architecture.
• Maintain and evolve core microservices, databases, and platform components.
• Build and improve data ingestion pipelines and crawling processes.
• Ensure platform scalability, reliability, and maintainability under increasing load.
• Contribute to shared platform blocks, including infrastructure components and libraries.
• Refactor legacy systems and improve observability; address production issues as needed.

Conocimientos

Python backend

Django/Flask/FastAPI

REST APIs

System design

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Kubernetes

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Observability

Messaging (RabbitMQ/Kafka)

Descripción del empleo

Primetag is seeking a backend software engineer for a fully remote role focused on building and maintaining backend services, data pipelines, and the observability platform for a data-intensive analytics product. You will deliver production-grade code with emphasis on performance, cost efficiency, documentation, testing, and APM metrics.

Responsibilities include designing and maintaining microservices with Python (FastAPI/Django/Flask), evolving databases, and improving data ingestion pipelines.