Senior Python Backend Engineer - High-Load Microservices

BETBY; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Sick leave

Vacation days

Learning & growth

Language support

Modern hardware

International team

Corporate events

Welfare program

Life milestone gifts

Job summary

Betby is building a complex, high-load backend system based on a microservice architecture to enable continuous development and high-throughput processing. You will join the Risk-Management Product Group, delivering risk tools and back-office pages used by internal risk managers and operator clients.

The team is small (6-8 engineers) with high autonomy and ownership, using Python 3.13+ (asyncio, Pydantic v2), Kafka, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK to build

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Python experience.
• Strong asyncio and asynchronous programming skills.
• Experience with microservice architecture (REST API, RPC).
• Solid knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Good understanding of SOLID, DRY, KISS, YAGNI principles.
• Experience designing internal libraries / SDKs / shared components.
• Pydantic (v2).
• Hands-on experience with stream processing.
• Solid understanding of RPC design (servers, retries, correlationId).
• Kafka and RabbitMQ experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-load backend services using Python (asyncio).
• Design, support, and optimize microservice components.
• Participate in architectural discussions and technical decisions.
• Implement integrations with Kafka, RabbitMQ, and internal RPC services.
• Refactor and improve services for scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Write functional and integration tests to ensure system stability.

Skills

Python

asyncio

Microservices

REST API

RPC

SOLID

DRY

KISS

YAGNI

Pydantic

Kafka

RabbitMQ

MongoDB

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Testing

REST

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

MongoDB

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

GraphQL

Ariadne

ClickHouse

Job description

Betby is building a complex, high-load backend system based on a microservice architecture to enable continuous development and high-throughput processing. You will join the Risk-Management Product Group, delivering risk tools and back-office pages used by internal risk managers and operator clients.

The team is small (6-8 engineers) with high autonomy and ownership, using Python 3.13+ (asyncio, Pydantic v2), Kafka, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK to build