Senior Python Engineer — Real-Time Doc Collaboration

Doist; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global & flexible work

Ownership & growth

Strong work-life balance

Job summary

PandaDoc is hiring a Senior Python Engineer for the Content Engineering team to own the content model, editor backend, and data persistence. You will design scalable backend systems for real-time collaboration across many users and ensure long-term maintainability of the product.

You will contribute to architecture, production monitoring, and AI-powered capabilities, delivering reliable features for a global SaaS platform with a strong emphasis on performance and observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Python development experience in production environments.
• Strong experience with relational databases: SQL, schema design, migrations, query optimization.
• Hands-on experience with message queues and event-driven architectures (Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ or similar).
• Deep understanding of AsyncIO and concurrent systems.
• Experience building and operating microservice architectures at scale.
• Comfortable reasoning about distributed systems: consistency, ordering, failure modes.
• Understanding of the full development lifecycle, from requirements to deployment to production monitoring.
• Nice to have: experience building or integrating AI agents, LLM-powered workflows, or agentic systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the backend systems that power real-time collaborative document editing for tens of thousands of concurrent users.
• Own the content model and data persistence layer: schema design, migrations, compatibility, and long-term maintainability as the product grows.
• Build and maintain event-driven pipelines (Kafka, NATS) that process high volumes of frontend interactions and keep document state consistent across services.
• Contribute to the reliability, observability, and operational excellence of a large fleet of Python microservices.
• Ship product features end-to-end, from backend architecture to production monitoring, and care about how they behave after they ship.
• Contribute to our growing investment in AI-powered capabilities, including agentic document workflows.

Skills

Python development

Relational databases

Message queues

AsyncIO

Microservices

Distributed systems

Development lifecycle

AI agents / LLMs

Tools

Kafka

NATS

RabbitMQ

Job description

PandaDoc is hiring a Senior Python Engineer for the Content Engineering team to own the content model, editor backend, and data persistence. You will design scalable backend systems for real-time collaboration across many users and ensure long-term maintainability of the product.

You will contribute to architecture, production monitoring, and AI-powered capabilities, delivering reliable features for a global SaaS platform with a strong emphasis on performance and observability.