Senior Python Backend Engineer – AWS Cloud-Native API Lead

Premier Inn Hotels LLC (UAE); United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Premier Inn Hotels LLC (UAE) is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in Plano, TX, with strong Python, API development, and AWS cloud-native experience. The role focuses on building scalable backend services, microservices architectures, and serverless patterns using AWS.

The ideal candidate will design and deploy REST APIs with FastAPI/Flask, implement security and observability, and lead CI/CD pipelines while delivering high-availability systems in a US-based environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software/backend engineering experience.
• Experience designing REST APIs and microservices.
• Strong AWS experience with multiple services listed in the ad.
• Hands-on with containerized workloads and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to design secure, observable cloud-native systems.

Responsibilities

• Design cloud-native backend architectures using microservices, serverless, and event-driven patterns.
• Build Python backend services and REST APIs using FastAPI, Flask, or similar frameworks.
• Implement API validation, security, error handling, performance, and integration patterns.
• Develop serverless solutions using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, and Step Functions.
• Containerize and deploy applications using Docker, ECS/Fargate, and/or EKS/Kubernetes.
• Implement asynchronous processing using SQS, SNS, and EventBridge.
• Design data persistence using RDS/Aurora and DynamoDB.
• Implement caching using ElastiCache/Redis.
• Provision infrastructure using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated testing.
• Implement monitoring and observability using CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry, or comparable tools.
• Apply AWS security practices across IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, VPC, and networking.
• Design highly available, scalable, and disaster-resilient solutions.
• Troubleshoot production issues and apply SRE/reliability practices.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and communicate engineering decisions to stakeholders.

Skills

Python

REST APIs

AWS

Microservices

Serverless

CI/CD

Containerization

Problem Solving

Communication

Tools

FastAPI

Flask

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

ECS/Fargate

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Premier Inn Hotels LLC (UAE) is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in Plano, TX, with strong Python, API development, and AWS cloud-native experience. The role focuses on building scalable backend services, microservices architectures, and serverless patterns using AWS.

The ideal candidate will design and deploy REST APIs with FastAPI/Flask, implement security and observability, and lead CI/CD pipelines while delivering high-availability systems in a US-based environment.