Senior Backend Engineer - Python/Django - Remote

Lifelancer Ltd; United States; Remote; USD 92,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Charitable giving

Job summary

Veeva Ostro is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and deliver scalable APIs powering our SaaS platform. You will balance velocity with code health, champion clean architecture, testing, and low technical debt while collaborating with product and design teams.

You will lead engineering efforts, optimize performance, evaluate new backend tech, and troubleshoot live systems to maximise uptime. Prior Python and Django experience, strong SQL skills, and excellent communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production code for SaaS products.
• 5+ years of deep expertise in Python and frameworks like Django.
• Strong proficiency with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale high-performance APIs for Veeva Ostro’s SaaS platform
• Partner cross-functionally to design and ship new features
• Provide technical feedback on product roadmaps and feature scoping
• Champion quality through peer reviews, unit testing, and clean architecture
• Optimize application and database performance to handle growth
• Evaluate emerging backend technologies to improve engineering practices
• Troubleshoot and resolve live system issues to maximize uptime

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Tools

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

Job description

Veeva Ostro is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and deliver scalable APIs powering our SaaS platform. You will balance velocity with code health, champion clean architecture, testing, and low technical debt while collaborating with product and design teams.

You will lead engineering efforts, optimize performance, evaluate new backend tech, and troubleshoot live systems to maximise uptime. Prior Python and Django experience, strong SQL skills, and excellent communication are essential.