Backend Engineer

What Youll Be Doing

• Designing Flexible Extensible Systems: Architecting Python-based backend systems using Django Django Rest Framework and Celery built to support a growing suite of enterprise analytical tools and applications across multiple domains.
• Owning the Full Backend Lifecycle: Developing APIs modeling relational databases and supporting application performance through smart caching observability and CI/CD workflows.
• Product-Aware Engineering: Collaborating directly with stakeholders to understand business goals gather context and define system requirements. Youll help shape solutions that balance technical design with real-world constraints often in areas where problem definitions are still emerging.
• Collaborative Systems Thinking: Translating data science and optimization workflows into production-ready services that are easy to maintain and modify coordinated through formal processes of technical specs and review.

What Were Looking For

• Backend Engineering Expertise: 7 years of experience building backend systems in Python with deep expertise in Django and Django Rest Framework and a genuine enthusiasm for using these frameworks to craft elegant reliable software.
• System Design and Architecture Skills: Experience designing systems that are easy to understand extend and compose even when working with imperfect legacy code or evolving product needs.
• Async and Background Processing: Hands-on experience with Celery and building distributed systems that include asynchronous and long-running tasks. Comfort designing workflows with queues retries and failure handling.
• Cloud and Containerization: Proficiency with Docker AWS and Kubernetes and an understanding of how to build backend systems that are cost-effective observable and production-ready.
• API and Data Layer Fluency: Experience developing RESTful APIs working with PostgreSQL and using tools like Redis and DynamoDB for caching and fast data access.
• Security and Authentication: Familiarity with OAuth2 and role-based access control. Experience integrating secure authentication flows and managing secrets responsibly.
• Self-Directed and Product-Aware: Ability to work through ambiguity collaborate across functions and make thoughtful engineering decisions without needing complete specs.

Why Work at Recentive

• Impactful Work: Our technology and products directly shape operational strategies at leading sports teams and leagues broadcasters and other key players in the live events ecosystem.
• Forward Thinking: Design and build forward-thinking analytical solutions that blend creativity and engineeringleveraging advanced algorithms optimization and machine learning to solve complex real-world challenges.
• Collaborative Culture: Were a growing tight-knit data-centered team that values knowledge-sharing learning and innovation.
• Growth & Ownership: Shape your career as a technical leader while helping build next-generation analytical tools from the ground up.
• Just Getting Started: Weve accomplished a lot but were just in the early innings of where well go. Our new west-coast office in SF is a testament to that growth and will serve as a hub for our growing team.