Senior Backend Engineer: Django & Production Ops (Remote)

Optery, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; MXN 1,621,000 - 2,341,000; Full time

Job summary

Optery, Inc. is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join a fully remote team—open to candidates based in Latin America. You will own features end-to-end, primarily in Python/Django, with light frontend work as needed.

You and the founders will shape product and technical direction, ensuring production readiness a week after shipping. The role emphasizes building production-grade backend services powering consumer dashboards and a B2B platform, with emphasis on reliability, performance, and

Qualifications

• 6+ years building production web applications.
• 3+ years with Python and Django.
• Working knowledge of CS fundamentals: data structures, concurrency, SQL, system design.
• Strong written communication; comfortable working async across time zones.
• Self-direction and follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features for the consumer dashboard and B2B platform APIs.
• Improve performance and reliability in Celery and RabbitMQ pipelines.
• Integrate with third-party services (Stripe, WorkOS SSO) and other providers.
• Engage in code reviews and collaborate with a small backend team.

Skills

Production web apps

Python/Django

CS fundamentals

Written communication

Self-direction

Tools

DRF

Django Ninja

Celery

RabbitMQ

Redis

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

AWS

Stripe integrations

Job description

Optery, Inc. is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join a fully remote team—open to candidates based in Latin America. You will own features end-to-end, primarily in Python/Django, with light frontend work as needed.

You and the founders will shape product and technical direction, ensuring production readiness a week after shipping. The role emphasizes building production-grade backend services powering consumer dashboards and a B2B platform, with emphasis on reliability, performance, and