Senior Backend Engineer — Data & API Platform (Remote)

Fuel Talent LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Fuel Talent LLC is seeking a Senior/Staff Backend Product Engineer for a fully remote role in the U.S. You will design and build scalable backend systems using Python and develop APIs powering customer-facing products.

The role emphasizes strong SQL skills, data modeling, and collaboration with product teams to solve real-world operational challenges. The position offers significant ownership in architecture and technical direction, with equity in a well-funded seed-stage startup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong experience building production backend applications in Python.
• Deep expertise in SQL, relational database design, and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend systems using Python.
• Develop APIs and services that power customer-facing products.
• Design and optimize relational databases, data models, and SQL queries.
• Collaborate on architecture, system design, and engineering best practices.

Skills

Python

APIs

SQL

System design

Startup environment

Communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

GCP

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Job description

Fuel Talent LLC is seeking a Senior/Staff Backend Product Engineer for a fully remote role in the U.S. You will design and build scalable backend systems using Python and develop APIs powering customer-facing products.

The role emphasizes strong SQL skills, data modeling, and collaboration with product teams to solve real-world operational challenges. The position offers significant ownership in architecture and technical direction, with equity in a well-funded seed-stage startup.