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#5 - Senior Backend Engineer - Python & Azure Databricks

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🚀 Join Our Remote Data Products & Machine Learning Startup! 🚀

At Muttdata, we build innovative Data Products and Machine Learning solutions that help companies solve complex business challenges. As a fast-growing, remote-first startup, we’re passionate about technology, collaboration, and continuous learning.

We are looking for an experienced, hands-on, and ownership-driven Backend Engineer (Advanced) to join our team 🐶🚀. In this role you will design, build, and operate production-grade backend services and REST APIs with Python and FastAPI on Microsoft Azure, including a communications dispatch service that integrates messaging queues and external APIs such as Braze.

You will work closely with development, data, and IT/DevOps teams, integrating backend services with Azure components, relational databases, third-party APIs, and data processes running on platforms like Databricks. Reliability, observability, and clean, maintainable code are at the core of this role.

🚀 What We Do

  • Leveraging our expertise, we build modern Machine Learning systems for demand planning and budget forecasting.
  • Developing scalable data infrastructures, we enhance high-level decision-making, tailored to each client.
  • Offering comprehensive Data Engineering and custom AI solutions, we optimize cloud-based systems.
  • Using Generative AI, we help e-commerce platforms and retailers create higher-quality ads, faster.
  • Building deep learning models, we enhance visual recognition and automation for various industries, improving product categorization, quality control, and information retrieval.
  • Developing recommendation models, we personalize user experiences in e-commerce, streaming, and digital platforms, driving engagement and conversions.

    • 🌟 Our Partnerships

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Astronomer
  • Databricks

    • 🌟 Our Values

  • 📊 We are Data Nerds
  • 🤗 We are Open Team Players
  • 🚀 We Take Ownership
  • 🌟 We Have a Positive Mindset
    • 🔍 Curious about what we’re up to? Check out our case studies and dive into our blog post to learn more about our culture and the exciting projects we’re working on! 🚀

    Responsibilities 🤓

  • Design, develop, and evolve backend services and REST APIs with Python and FastAPI, applying best practices in architecture, security, and maintainability.
  • Build and operate the communications dispatch service, integrating message queues and external APIs (Braze) with idempotency, retries, rate limiting, and robust error handling.
  • Integrate and orchestrate platform components, including Azure services, databases, third-party APIs, and data processes running on platforms like Databricks.
  • Design and maintain persistence solutions in Azure SQL, including data modeling, migrations, data integrity, and query optimization.
  • Ensure backend reliability and observability in production through monitoring, tracing, automated testing, and failure recovery mechanisms.
  • Collaborate with development, data, and IT/DevOps teams on technical decisions, component integration, CI/CD pipelines, and deployments across environments.
  • Maintain clear and up-to-date technical documentation.

    • Required Skills 🚀

  • 3–5 years of experience in backend development, with demonstrable participation in building, integrating, and operating production services.
  • Strong command of Python and experience building REST APIs with FastAPI or equivalent frameworks.
  • Experience designing modular, maintainable software, applying SOLID principles, separation of concerns, and automated testing best practices.
  • Experience integrating APIs and distributed systems, including authentication, error handling, timeouts, retries, and resiliency patterns.
  • Experience with asynchronous processing and messaging systems: queues, dead-letter handling, and idempotency (e.g., Azure Service Bus or equivalents).
  • Strong SQL and relational database skills, including modeling, querying, migrations, and ORMs; SQL Server or Azure SQL preferred.
  • Experience with Docker and deploying containerized services.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud services, preferably Microsoft Azure, including monitoring, Git version control, and CI/CD processes.

    • Nice to Have 😉

  • Experience integrating and orchestrating data processes from backend services, especially with Azure Databricks or other data processing platforms.
  • Experience with containerized infrastructure in the cloud, including Kubernetes/AKS or Azure Container Registry.
  • Experience with Braze or similar customer engagement platforms.

    • 🎁 Perks

  • 🌍 Remote-first culture – work from anywhere!
  • 🚀 In-Company English Lessons.
  • 💪 Wellhub or sports club stipend to stay active
  • 🚀 AWS, DBT, Google Cloud, Azure & Databricks certifications fully covered
  • 🍕 Food credits via Pedidos Ya – because great work deserves great food.
  • 🎂 Birthday off + an extra vacation week (Mutt Week! 🏖️)
  • 🤝 Referral bonuses – help us grow the team & get rewarded!
  • ✈️🏝️ Annual Mutters' Trip – an unforgettable getaway with the team!
  • 👶 Monthly Childcare Reimbursement – Because supporting families matters too

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