Senior Backend Engineer: Python & .NET Microservices

Insight Global (United States); Dublin (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join a backend team focused on accelerating core service development and migrating an existing platform. You will work across new development and existing services, with a strong emphasis on Python-based backend API development in a distributed AWS environment.

The role involves owning production-quality APIs, collaborating with cloud, data, and analytics teams, and leveraging microservices, PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB while contributing to

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of professional backend development experience with Python
• Experience with C#/.NET in an established codebase
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging/pub-sub patterns
• Cloud-native backend development experience
• Experience building Python/FastAPI APIs and microservices using SNS, SQS, API Gateway, DynamoDB
• Experience with PostgreSQL databases

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain backend APIs and microservices
• Develop greenfield backend services using Python and FastAPI
• Support and enhance existing .NET/C# core services
• Help accelerate migration and modernization of an existing platform
• Design services using microservices and distributed-system patterns
• Build and integrate event-driven services with AWS SNS/SQS
• Work with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
• Develop services integrating with AWS API Gateway
• Collaborate with cloud engineering on infrastructure templates and CloudFormation
• Partner with data and analytics teams to improve event/data availability
• Assist with migration of monitoring capabilities from SolarWinds to a new platform
• Balance day-to-day support with new project work
• Apply AI-assisted development tools to improve efficiency

Skills

Python

FastAPI

C#/.NET

Event-driven architecture

AWS

Tools

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

SNS

SQS

API Gateway

Job description

Insight Global seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join a backend team focused on accelerating core service development and migrating an existing platform. You will work across new development and existing services, with a strong emphasis on Python-based backend API development in a distributed AWS environment.

The role involves owning production-quality APIs, collaborating with cloud, data, and analytics teams, and leveraging microservices, PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB while contributing to