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Senior Backend Engineer – SaaS Platform
Location
Philippines
Posted
103 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer – SaaS Platform
Catena
• Drive the development and scalability of backend systems powering thousands of live events globally. • Improve system performance, reliability, and maintainability through proactive architecture and code quality initiatives. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver customer-facing features efficiently and safely. • Influence the technical roadmap and implement best practices for API design, database modeling, and service integration. • Contribute to team knowledge and mentorship through code reviews and shared engineering standards. • Own backend execution for customer-facing features from design through production release. • Translate product requirements into secure, maintainable backend solutions. • Design clean data models and RESTful APIs. • Support third-party integrations and internal service communication. • Evaluate legacy systems and propose incremental improvements. • Contribute to long-term backend architecture roadmaps. • Balance technical debt reduction with feature velocity. • Establish and uphold backend standards for API design, performance, and maintainability. • Optimize PostgreSQL schemas, indexes, and queries for performance. • Profile APIs and resolve bottlenecks. • Diagnose production issues using logs, metrics, and tracing tools. • Improve system reliability and scalability. • Partner with a predominantly front-end team to identify risks and constraints. • Participate in planning, estimation, and technical design discussions. • Mentor engineers and share knowledge through code reviews.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years professional backend engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python for production-grade services.
- Deep experience with Django, including REST API development and ORM usage.
- Advanced PostgreSQL knowledge (schema design, migrations, indexing, query optimization).
- Experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs.
- Solid understanding of backend fundamentals (request lifecycles, concurrency, caching, error handling).
- Experience debugging production systems using logs and observability tools.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- SaaS product development experience.
- Supporting third-party integrations.
- Familiarity with SAML SSO, OpenAPI/Swagger, or similar standards.
- Experience with Jira or similar agile tooling.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog).
- Familiarity leveraging AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) for development productivity.
- Experience with distributed systems supporting web and mobile applications.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary: Based on experience and skills
- Remote Work: Fully remote—work from anywhere
- Performance Bonus: Based on data accuracy, reporting timeliness, and overall sales efficiency
- Team Incentives: Recognition for maintaining 100% CRM hygiene and on-time reporting
- Generous PTO: In accordance with company policy
- Health Coverage for PH-based talents: HMO coverage after 3 months for full-time employees
- Direct Mentorship: Guidance from international industry experts
- Learning & Development: Ongoing access to resources for professional growth
- Global Networking: Connect with professionals worldwide
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