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Backend Software Engineer, Python
Location
Texas
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$136K - $190.1K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Backend Software Engineer, Python
dentsu Austria
• Architect, develop, and test production grade Python APIs for media products • Support data pipelines, background jobs, and distributed systems that interact with AI models • Work with technical stakeholders to design scalable systems for easy development, deployment, and monitoring of systems • Create implementation plans teams can work against to achieve product goals • Design and robust systems for long running processes • Ensure errors are routed for proper triaging • Design/maintain high quality automated tests and manual stress/quality testing frameworks for AI systems • Consider data governance and cyber security practices, ensuring fairness, transparency, and compliance with regulations
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
- 2-4 years experience designing, maintaining, and testing enterprise grade RestAPIs
- Expert Python skills, deep experience with concurrent systems (asyncio, tornado, celery etc)
- Demonstrated production experience with complex long running processes that present and collect data
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Prefect, Airflow, Dagster)
- Experience with data persistence: Redis, Postgres, NoSQL, Mongo DB, etc
- Demonstrated production experience with monitoring enterprise systems
- Ability to architect systems that are maintainable and extendable
- Balancing over engineering while preparing for future requests
- Familiarity with LLMs – their APIs, performance challenges, and how to mitigate those (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc)
- Proficiency with version tracking
- Knowledge of containerization, DevOps tools, and CI/CD pipelines
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- 401k
- Flexible paid time off
- At least 15 paid holidays per year
- Paid sick and safe leave
- Paid parental leave
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