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Senior Backend Engineer – Python
Location
Illinois
Posted
125 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer – Python
Contentsquare
• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that power Loris’s conversation intelligence platform. • Integrate machine learning models into production, ensuring they are reliable, performant, and easy to update. • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and data scientists to ship impactful, user-facing features. • Own the architecture, development, and maintenance of backend services that ingest and normalize data from external systems (e.g., Salesforce, Zendesk, Intercom, Five9). • Build resilient and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for data ingestion and enrichment. • Stay current with API changes, rate limits, and other nuances of third-party platforms. • Write clean, maintainable code and participate in design reviews and architecture discussions. • Monitor production environments, debug complex issues, and drive performance improvements.
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of backend development experience in production systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python (FastAPI, Flask, or Django preferred).
- Experience working on SaaS products at scale, including reliability, monitoring, and deployment best practices.
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with APIs, third-party integrations, and/or ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Strong troubleshooting skills and familiarity with observability practices (logging, monitoring, debugging in cloud-native environments).
- A product mindset: you care about the “why,” not just the “how.”
- Demonstrated ownership: you follow through, debug in production, and care about outcomes.
Benefits
- Virtual onboarding, Hackathon, and various opportunities to interact with your team and global colleagues both on and offsite each year
- Work flexibility: hybrid and remote work policies
- Generous paid time-off policy (every location is different)
- Lifestyle allowance
- A Culture Crew in every country we’re based in to coordinate regular activities for employees to get to know each other and bond outside of work
- Every full-time employee receives stock options, allowing them to share in the company’s success
- We have multiple Employee Resource Groups, that offer a safe space for individuals who share common identities, life experiences, or allyship to connect, support one another, and passionately advocate for the issues close to their hearts
- And more benefits tailored to each country
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