High-Performing Python back-end engineer

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TYPE OF WORK

Full Time

SALARY

$1200+

HOURS PER WEEK

40

DATE UPDATED

Mar 17, 2026

JOB OVERVIEW

Location: Remote (Philippines preferred)
Salary: $1200 (+ performance bonus later on)
Type: Long-Term / Career Growth Opportunity
Start Date: Immediate

Our ideal candidate takes strong ownership, thinks in systems, and approaches problems with an analytical, solution-oriented mindset and is comfortable in working in a fast-moving environment.

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CORE REQUIREMENTS:

Python & Software Engineering
- Strong experience with Python (3.8+)
- Deep understanding of Python package structures
- Experience with pyproject.toml and modern Python tooling
- Experience with code formatters and linters (e.g. Black, Ruff)

Experience building:
- Custom libraries and reusable packages
- Microservices and modular architectures

Familiar with:
- Testing workflows (unit and integration testing)
- DTO patterns and clean data modeling
- API communication and network layers
- AI development tooling

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Besides that we are listing some other heavily preferred skills below.

Comfortable working with modern AI-powered development environments:
- Cursor
- Claude
- Windsurf
- or similar agent-based IDEs


FRAMEWORKS & API DEVELOPMENT
- Strong experience with Python REST frameworks
- FastAPI (preferred)
- Flask or similar

- Experience designing and building scalable backend systems

Experience with:
- SQLAlchemy
- Alembic
- Pandas
- Pickle


AI / LLM integrations:
- OpenAI
- Llama
- LangChain


AUTHENTICATION
- Solid understanding of OAuth / OAuth2
- Experience with third-party auth providers (e.g. Clerk or similar)


DATABASES & DATA LAYER
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL
- SQLAlchemy ORM
- Alembic migrations


CACHING & REALTIME SYSTEMS
- Experience with Redis or Dragonfly
- Experience with realtime data systems (Convex is a strong plus)


Experience with background task systems such as:
- Celery
- Redis Queue
- or similar


ARCHITECTURE & SYSTEM DESIGN
- Experience working with multi-service architectures
- Familiar with service-oriented / microservices architectures
- Ability to design for scalability and maintainability


DEVOPS & DEPLOYMENT
- Experience with Docker and containerised environments
- Understanding of deployment workflows and production systems


WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Strong sense of ownership and responsibility
- High-performance mindset with attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and proactively
- Strong communication skills
- Clean, structured coding practices
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, evolving environment

Interested? Please send us:
* A short introduction about yourself
* Examples of your previous work (projects, GitHub, portfolio, etc.)
* A brief overview of your skills and experience

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