Senior Backend Engineer - Python & Data Pipelines (Remote)

SplitMetrics; Spain (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off

Health insurance

Professional development

Performance reviews

Team events

Remote-friendly

Coworking support

Job summary

SplitMetrics is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with data engineering experience to join our Platform team. You will build scalable, high-load Python services, process 200-400M+ records daily, and design integrations behind a unified data model and API.

We value strong SQL skills, PostgreSQL optimization, and microservices architecture. Remote-first, with opportunities to work across 20+ countries and multiple products in our ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial experience with Python.
• Excellent knowledge of raw SQL.
• Experience with data stores like PostgreSQL, with performance optimization.
• Experience in building microservices and scaling such systems.
• Experience with modern CI/CD approaches and tools.
• Experience setting up and improving the development process.
• Strong focus on business implications when making architecture decisions.
• Hands-on experience building data pipelines and ETL/ELT at scale.
• Experience integrating with many external APIs and designing a unified abstraction layer over heterogeneous data sources.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable, high-load systems in Python.
• Work with big data: process 200-400M+ records per day.
• Design and develop integrations with multiple external channels behind a unified data model and API.
• Ensure data quality and consistency across channels: validation, reconciliation, monitoring of freshness and completeness.
• Build and maintain data pipelines: ingestion, normalization, deduplication and backfills.
• Improve system reliability, observability and cost efficiency.
• Design, build, deploy, monitor and maintain products.
• Rewrite legacy systems with modern technologies.

Skills

Python

SQL

PostgreSQL

Microservices

CI/CD

Data pipelines

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

GCP

Job description

SplitMetrics is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with data engineering experience to join our Platform team. You will build scalable, high-load Python services, process 200-400M+ records daily, and design integrations behind a unified data model and API.

We value strong SQL skills, PostgreSQL optimization, and microservices architecture. Remote-first, with opportunities to work across 20+ countries and multiple products in our ecosystem.