Product Backend Engineer (Remote, USD Salary)

Requirements:

• 3-5 years of experience building robust and performant backend systems using modern technology. Like Python, FastAPI, Cloud Load Balancing, Redis, asyncio, OAuth2.0, Pub/Sub (Protobuf), and Google Firestore (NoSQL).
• Have worked with LLM libraries like Langgraph and Pinecone.
• Deep understanding of backend development best practices, including system design, performance optimization, async frameworks, and scalable architecture.
• Take initiative and get things done.
• Quickly evaluate tradeoffs and make sound technical decisions in a fast-paced, changing, and often unclear environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities:

• Talking to customers to understand their pain points and requests
• Designing and planning potential solutions
• Writing the backend for a new feature
• Working with and improving our LLM orchestration
• Setting up the infrastructure to make (3) happen
• Implementing data observability (eg: Amplitude) / error tracking (eg: Sentry)
• Testing your feature, which oftentimes involves manual e2e tests and writing automated integration tests
• Fighting fires - know when to deploy a fast hack and when to solve a bug for good
• Getting customer feedback and iterating