We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team and contribute to the development of our core platform, Shoraka.

This role is focused on building scalable backend systems, designing maintainable architectures, and solving complex technical and operational challenges with a long-term engineering mindset.

The ideal candidate is capable of independently driving backend initiatives from design to production, navigating ambiguity, and making thoughtful engineering decisions that balance scalability, maintainability, correctness, and delivery speed.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs using Python and FastAPI
• Build systems following Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles
• Design maintainable domain models, application layers, and infrastructure boundaries
• Architect backend systems and database structures independently
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code with proper unit test coverage
• Diagnose complex business and system challenges and translate them into clear, actionable technical solutions
• Design and prototype internal tools, automations, and integrations that improve operational efficiency and transparency
• Build and maintain data flows, scripts, and internal dashboards to surface actionable insights
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, operations, QA, and DevOps teams to design scalable long-term solutions
• Analyze and optimize application performance, database queries, resource utilization, and system reliability
• Define and track meaningful technical and operational metrics
• Contribute to observability, monitoring, and operational readiness across services
• Participate in architectural discussions, code reviews, and engineering standards improvements
• Explore and evaluate emerging technologies, APIs, AI tooling, and engineering workflows that can improve how we build and operate systems
• Bring structure, ownership, and systems thinking to ambiguous or evolving problem spaces

Required

• Strong expertise in Python and FastAPI
• Strong understanding of software architecture and distributed systems fundamentals
• Experience designing systems using Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Strong knowledge of SQLAlchemy, SQLModel, and Alembic
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, database design, indexing, and query optimization
• Experience writing unit tests and designing testable systems
• Strong understanding of concurrency, retries, consistency, and failure handling in backend systems
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, OpenTelemetry, ELK stack, or similar tooling
• Ability to reason about scalability, performance, reliability, and engineering trade-offs
• Experience working effectively with AI-assisted development workflows and modern engineering tooling
• Strong communication skills and collaborative mindset
• Ability to operate independently with high ownership and accountability

Nice to Have

• Experience with asynchronous systems and message queues
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures
• Experience with Docker and containerized environments
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
• Experience with Redis or other caching systems
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or cloud-native infrastructure
• Experience debugging production incidents and performance bottlenecks
• Experience building internal platforms or operational tooling

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance
• Snapp credit (cab, food, pay)
• Legal and mental health counseling services
• Insurance purchase subsidy
• Loan