Senior Backend Engineer (LATAM)

Optery, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Optery, Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a fully remote team working with the founders on product and technical direction. The role centers on Python and Django with light front-end work when useful.

You will own features end-to-end and ensure production readiness a week after shipping. The position welcomes candidates based in Latin America and emphasizes async collaboration across time zones and strong written communication.

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 features for the Django backend powering the consumer dashboard and the B2B platform.
• Improve performance and reliability in Celery and RabbitMQ pipelines.
• Integrate with third-party services like Stripe and WorkOS SSO.
• Conduct code reviews and collaborate with a small backend team of senior engineers.

Skills

Python

Django

Async communication

Distributed systems

Tools

Celery

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

About the role

Optery helps people get their personal data off broker sites. We're a fully remote team, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer who'll work directly with the founders on product and technical direction.

This position is open to candidates based in Latin America.

The role is backend-focused: Python and Django, with light frontend work when it makes sense (HTMX, the occasional React component). You own features start to finish, including the unglamorous part where you make sure the thing works in production a week after it ships.

What you'd work on in your first quarter

You'd be writing code in our Django backend, which powers both the consumer dashboard and the B2B platform. Expect a mix of:

• New features for the APIs that power our consumer dashboard and customer reporting

• Performance and reliability work in our Celery and RabbitMQ pipelines

• Integrations with third-party services like payment providers and identity providers (Stripe, WorkOS SSO)

• Code review, both giving and receiving, on a small backend team of other Senior Engineers

We don't have a rigid roadmap of "first 30 days, first 60 days" because that's never how it actually plays out. You'd pick up real work in your first week.

What we're looking for

Required:

• 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

Strong plus:

• DRF and/or django-ninja

• Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis in production

• Postgres tuning and query analysis

• Kubernetes and AWS

• Stripe, identity providers, or other third-party API integrations

• HTMX, React, or both

• Background in consumer privacy or adjacent industries

We expect engineers here to use AI coding assistants like Claude Code as part of normal day-to-day work. If you've spent time figuring out how to actually get value out of these tools, that's a real plus.

How we work

Two things matter more than any specific skill.

1. The first is ownership. If your feature ships and breaks in production, you're the one who investigates. If a spec is ambiguous, you ask. If you see something off in a teammate's PR, you flag it instead of waiting for someone else to.

2. The second is writing. Async-first work means most of our coordination happens in PR descriptions, Slack threads, and Jira tickets. We care about people who can write clearly, and who also know when it's time to give up on writing and just hop on a 15-minute call.

Location and hours

This role is open to candidates based in Latin America. We strongly prefer working hours that overlap with US Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific time zones, because we do a fair amount of real-time collaboration.

Equal opportunity

Optery values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We don't discriminate on the basis off race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors.