The posting
WE ARE HIRING: Backend Engineer
Location: On-site Employment Type: Full time Industry: AI / IoT / Product Engineering / Backend Development
Role Overview
We are seeking a technically strong and product-minded Backend Engineer to build and maintain reliable backend systems for an AI-powered IoT product.
The selected candidate will work across backend services, APIs, databases, background jobs, authentication, device-data flows, AI workflows, and service integrations while collaborating closely with data science, firmware, IoT, and frontend engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend services for a production AI and IoT-enabled product.
- Develop APIs using Python, Django 5, and Django REST Framework.
- Work with ORM models, database migrations, serializers, permissions, and API design.
- Design backend services that connect product features, device data, AI workflows, and customer-facing applications.
- Integrate backend systems with authentication services, REST APIs, and service-to-service communication.
- Work with Firebase Auth/Admin, gRPC, protobuf, and related integration technologies when required.
- Build and maintain asynchronous workflows, background jobs, and queue-based processing.
- Work with Redis and Dramatiq for background processing and event-driven workflows.
- Collaborate with data science engineers to support AI-driven insights, analytics workflows, model outputs, and data pipelines.
- Collaborate with firmware and IoT engineers to connect device behaviour, hardware signals, telemetry, and backend services.
- Debug issues across APIs, databases, workers, queues, authentication flows, integrations, and device-data flows.
- Improve backend reliability, observability, performance, and maintainability.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering standards across the team.
- Provide technical input on feature design, feasibility, system behaviour, and customer experience.
- Contribute to AI-assisted and agentic development workflows to improve engineering speed and quality.
- Use AI tools responsibly to support debugging, documentation, code quality, testing, and technical problem-solving.
- Maintain clean, scalable, and well-documented backend code.
- Work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to understand the full product and support broader technical ownership.
- Perform any other backend engineering, integration, or product-development duties assigned by management.
Technical Stack
- Backend: Python, Django 5, Django REST Framework
- Database: PostgreSQL
- Cache and Queues: Redis
- Workers and Async: Dramatiq, background jobs, event-driven workflows
- Authentication and Integrations: Firebase Auth/Admin, REST APIs, gRPC, protobuf
- Infrastructure: Dockerized services, production debugging, service-to-service architecture
- AI and Engineering Workflow: AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, AI-enabled debugging, AI-supported documentation
- Product Interfaces: Firmware, IoT systems, device data, AI/ML workflows, frontend applications
Candidate Profile
- Strong backend engineering experience with hands-on production development exposure.
- Strong knowledge of Python, Django, and Django REST Framework.
- Experience designing and developing APIs, backend services, and service logic.
- Good understanding of PostgreSQL, database modelling, queries, and migrations.
- Experience working with Redis, background jobs, queues, or asynchronous processing.
- Experience with authentication flows and third-party service integrations.
- Familiarity with Dockerized services and production debugging.
- Ability to debug complex issues across APIs, databases, workers, integrations, and service-to-service communication.
- Strong understanding of clean code, maintainability, performance, and backend reliability.
- Experience working with data science, AI, IoT, firmware, or device-data teams will be an advantage.
- Ability to use AI tools effectively while applying strong engineering judgment.
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and asking the right technical questions.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Good communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work closely with backend, frontend, firmware, IoT, and data science teams.
- Product-minded, detail-oriented, and interested in understanding the full customer journey.
- Proactive, accountable, and willing to grow into broader technical ownership.
Preferred Experience
- Experience working on IoT, video, telemetry, ML/AI, or real-time data products.
- Experience collaborating with firmware or embedded engineering teams.
- Experience with AI coding agents, AI-assisted testing, AI-based code reviews, or internal developer tools.
- Full-stack capability or interest will be an advantage.
- Experience with Rust services, especially Tokio, Axum, Reqwest, and Serde, will be an advantage.
- Experience in a startup or product-led engineering environment will be preferred.
Why This Role Matters
- The backend systems built in this role will support customer-facing features, device communication, data processing, AI-driven insights, and product reliability.
- The role offers exposure to the full technical product, including backend engineering, data science, firmware, IoT, AI workflows, and product development.
- This is a strong opportunity for a backend engineer who wants to work beyond a narrow API role and grow into broader software engineering ownership.
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