Staff Backend Engineer
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10 hours ago
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Job Summary
Were looking for a highly skilled Staff Backend Engineer to design and build robust scalable and secure distributed systems. As a critical member of our engineering team youll use your expertise in Python to build cloud-native applications that power our core services. We currently operate in an AWS environment and the core need is strong distributed systems and backend fundamentals.
Key Responsibilities
- Build backend logic for event-driven systems using message queues and pub/sub services with strong data processing and file-handling logic.
- Manage concurrent tasks efficiently in distributed environments using asynchronous programming techniques.
- Design and implement data processing pipelines across cloud storage compute and database services.
- Optimize applications for performance and scalability through caching async calls and latency reduction.
- Design and develop serverless applications and RESTful APIs using Flask or FastAPI.
- Follow cloud security best practices (IAM encryption network isolation) and implement authentication mechanisms (OAuth JWT or managed identity services).
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
Must-Have Skills
- 5 years of hands-on Python backend development experience with solid exposure to cloud-native or serverless solutions (AWS preferred).
- Proven experience with distributed systems concepts event-driven architecture message queues and scalable data pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with asynchronous and concurrent programming.
- Strong testing and debugging skills across distributed architectures.
Nice-to-Have
- Exposure to GenAI tooling or LLM-based systems particularly RAG or agentic RAG architectures is a plus.
- Experience integrating LLM APIs into backend services or workflows.
- Familiarity with vector databases and embedding-based search.
Soft Skills
- Builder mindset: thrives on writing debugging and improving production code.
- Collaborative humble and open to feedback.
- Strong communicator who explains design decisions clearly.
- Influences through contribution not hierarchy.
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Staff IC
About Company
Emumba is a global software services company enabling innovation for Fortune 500 customers. Specializing in AI, Gen AI, Product Development, and Enterprise Software Solutions. Transform your business today.
