Senior Backend Developer (Python, AI)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Developer (Python, AI): Building and maintaining highly resilient distributed backend services for a hospitality commerce platform with an accent on event-driven architecture, API design, and system reliability. Focus on optimizing performance, ensuring accuracy, and leveraging LLMs to accelerate development processes.

Location: Remote (Global)

Company

hirify.global is a product company powering businesses in retail, hospitality, and golf sectors with its one-stop cloud commerce platform, enabling innovation and exceptional customer experiences globally.

What you will do

• Build and maintain software components, primarily using the Python ecosystem.
• Develop backend services and APIs with FastAPI, Kafka, Redis, and AWS.
• Ensure reliability, performance, and accuracy aspects of event-driven distributed systems.
• Collaborate with other teams to integrate with microservices.
• Analyze root causes of problems and prioritize technical debt.
• Utilize LLMs to safely and robustly accelerate the development process.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software development with a strong focus on Python.
• Strong English communication skills.
• Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Strong understanding of scalability, performance optimization, and distributed systems.
• Experience with databases such as MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka.
• Commitment to clean code, maintainability, and systematic correctness.

Nice to have

• Experience working with recommendation systems, machine learning models, or data-driven applications.
• Proficiency with CI/CD systems, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud environments like AWS or GCP.

Culture & Benefits

• Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture, and possibility of remote work.
• Development of high-traffic products used at a global scale.
• Exposure to modern and proven technology.
• Opportunity for growth in technical or people management roles.
• Excellent benefits and perks, including equity for all hirify.globalers.
• Mental health online platform, counseling & coaching services, and LinkedIn Learning license.
• Volunteer day to give back to society.