Senior Backend Engineer - Sherpany

Hidden Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Datasite is seeking a senior backend engineer to own the design, delivery, and operation of reliable Python-based APIs for a meeting-management product. You will focus on scalable architecture, performance, observability, and safe delivery while collaborating with frontend, mobile, product, design, and platform teams.

You will mentor engineers, participate in design reviews, and promote best practices through pairing, talks, and documentation.

Qualifications

• Expert Python experience with Django and REST Framework.
• Strong REST API design and versioning knowledge.
• Advanced SQL and PostgreSQL skills, with tuning and partitioning.
• Experience with Celery and RabbitMQ or similar message brokers.
• Redis caching with cache-aside patterns and eviction strategies.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate robust APIs and services using Python, Django, and Django REST Framework.
• Lead architectural improvements for data models, service boundaries, messaging, and zero-downtime migrations.
• Collaborate with platform engineers on containerized infrastructure and delivery safety.
• Write and maintain tests, diagnose production issues, and prevent regressions via profiling and tracing.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, reviews, talks, and documentation.
• Shape practical solutions and well-designed APIs across teams.

Skills

Python

Django

REST API design

PostgreSQL

Celery

Redis caching

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Observability / tracing

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

Role overview

Own the design, delivery, and operation of reliable backend services for a meeting-management product. This senior engineering position focuses on Python-based APIs, scalable architecture, performance, observability, and safe delivery practices, while working closely with frontend, mobile, product, design, and platform colleagues. It also includes technical leadership through mentoring, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate robust APIs and services using Python, Django, and Django REST Framework.
• Lead architectural improvements involving data models, service boundaries, messaging, and zero-downtime migrations.
• Work with platform engineers on containerized infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and delivery safety.
• Write and maintain unit and integration tests, diagnose production issues, and prevent regressions through profiling, tracing, documentation, and instrumentation.
• Collaborate across product and engineering disciplines to shape practical solutions and well-designed APIs.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, structured feedback, design reviews, talks, and documentation.

Requirements

• Expert-level Python experience with Django and Django REST Framework.
• Strong knowledge of REST API design and versioning.
• Advanced SQL and PostgreSQL skills, including indexing, performance tuning, partitioning, and schema evolution.
• Experience building resilient asynchronous systems with Celery and message brokers such as RabbitMQ.
• Practical experience with Redis caching, including cache-aside patterns and eviction strategies.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, observability practices, service objectives, actionable alerting, and trace-to-log correlation.

Benefits and work setup

• International, trust-oriented working environment with meaningful ownership.
• Support for professional education and training, wellbeing resources, team events, and current development equipment.
• Opportunities to influence architecture, engineering practices, and product outcomes.