Senior Backend Engineer — End-to-End Ownership

Vector Synergy; Cut Off (LA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Vector Synergy is seeking a hands-on backend engineer to own features end-to-end—from discovery and design to implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring. You will mentor peers, review code, and contribute to architecture decisions in a fast-moving environment.

This off-site role emphasizes reliability, performance, and security, with strong emphasis on clear, timely communication on progress and blockers across an international team.

Qualifications

• Advanced Python development with clean, idiomatic code and async patterns.
• Production experience with FastAPI and async best practices.
• Strong object-oriented design and domain-driven design principles.
• Experience with relational, graph databases, and data modelling.

Responsibilities

• Lead features end-to-end from discovery through deployment and monitoring.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor peers to improve craftsmanship.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and surface technical risks and trade-offs.
• Maintain clear, timely communication on progress and blockers.

Skills

Python

OOP

REST APIs

DDD

Code reviews

Architectural awareness

Communication

Tools

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Neo4j

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Vector Synergy is seeking a hands-on backend engineer to own features end-to-end—from discovery and design to implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring. You will mentor peers, review code, and contribute to architecture decisions in a fast-moving environment.

This off-site role emphasizes reliability, performance, and security, with strong emphasis on clear, timely communication on progress and blockers across an international team.