Staff Python Backend Engineer (FastAPI) — Scale High-Throughput APIs

Victory Live; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical coverage

100% employer-paid dental, vision, and

life insurance and disability

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Paid time off and holidays

Wellness and professional development

Job summary

Victory Live seeks a Staff Software Engineer to own the technologies powering our B2B marketplace on Python and FastAPI. You will ship features across several business-critical services, retire technical debt, and set the standards other engineers build against.

This is a chance to shape one of our main revenue engines at a premier live event ticketing company. You will collaborate across teams, drive large-scale initiatives, and mentor engineers while upholding engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and FastAPI (or a comparable async web framework).
• Strong experience building and maintaining high-throughput backend services and APIs at scale.
• Deep understanding of software engineering best practices.
• Familiarity with the rest of our stack: SQLAlchemy, Celery, Redis, Kafka, Postgres, Datadog, Grafana, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, GitHub.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as RDS, ElastiCache, CloudSearch, EKS, and MSK.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across teams to influence engineering work and align with divisional strategy.
• Drive large-scale technical initiatives in Python services and ship scalable, secure solutions.
• Provide guidance and support to engineers to grow and solve hard problems.
• Work with Architects to design system-level solutions within company standards.
• Define and promote engineering best practices across teams, from test coverage to service boundaries.
• Identify and pay down technical debt to keep Python services maintainable.
• Hold the team's code to a high bar through rigorous review and quality programs.
• Write high-quality code yourself on the most complex and critical work.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Backend scalability

SQLAlchemy

Celery

Redis

Kafka

Postgres

Datadog

Grafana

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

GitHub

AWS

Tools

SQLAlchemy

Celery

Redis

Kafka

Postgres

Datadog

Grafana

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

GitHub

AWS

Job description

Victory Live seeks a Staff Software Engineer to own the technologies powering our B2B marketplace on Python and FastAPI. You will ship features across several business-critical services, retire technical debt, and set the standards other engineers build against.

This is a chance to shape one of our main revenue engines at a premier live event ticketing company. You will collaborate across teams, drive large-scale initiatives, and mentor engineers while upholding engineering best practices.