Senior Backend Engineer - Remote

Overview

Our client is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company helping more than 750 clients succeed in a converging world. They go the extra mile for their clients and accelerate their digital transformation with the Mosaic platform enabling their mobile, social, analytics, IoT, and cloud journeys.

Our client is a USD 3.4 billion company with 90,000+ professionals across five continents, helping global customers with innovative solutions.

The Group operates in the key industries that drive economic growth, enjoying a leadership position in the construction industry, financial industry, and technology.

We are currently searching for a Senior Backend Engineer (Python/FastAPI – Media & Streaming):

In Short

• Lead and support end-to-end production of visual content, including short films, music videos, and branded media.
• Collaborate with directors, producers, and creative teams to develop compelling narratives and storyboards.
• Contribute to the technical development of backend systems supporting content production workflows.
• Develop and maintain high-quality, modular, and well-annotated Python code, and contribute to Go or other squad-used languages.
• Design and implement APIs to synchronize data across remote systems, handling failures gracefully.
• Build observable systems with effective logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
• Write and review GitHub pull requests, focusing on code quality through testing, type annotations, and documentation.

Requirements

• Proficiency in modern Python, including asynchronous programming (asyncio, threading, multiprocessing).
• Experience with FastAPI and Celery.
• Strong understanding of writing unit tests with pytest, including mocking.
• Proficient in basic SQL queries.
• Understanding of TCP/IP fundamentals, DNS, HTTP requests, and subnetting.
• Experience with Docker and Linux environments.
• Familiarity with RESTful API development.
• Experience working with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, OCI).

Benefits

• Familiarity with Go or Rust.
• Knowledge of CDN or Multi-CDN architecture and ABR (Adaptive Bitrate) streaming concepts.
• Experience with observability systems, log aggregation, metrics pipelines, and ETL processes.
• Understanding of Python type annotations, immutability/mutability, and modular design.
• Experience in API orchestration in multi-CDN environments.
• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Background in distributed systems and fault-tolerant architectures.
• Experience with Kubernetes or general cloud infrastructure.