Python Backend Engineer Jobs

Build modern digital platforms at the intersection of engineering, cloud technology, and financial services. The Role We are looking for an experienced Senior Full-Stack Python Software Engineer to design and build high-quality digital solutions using Python web frameworks and modern front-end technologies. You will bring strong foundations in computer science, including data structures, algorithms, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed systems, and communication protocols. Working closely with Product Owners, architects, business analysts, Tech Leads, and fellow engineers, you will translate business needs into efficient, maintainable solutions. You will have the opportunity to build advanced systems using modern technologies while gaining valuable experience with financial services digital marketing platforms. What You’ll Do Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality full-stack solutions using Python, Django, and Angular, with potential future migration to ReactJS. Collaborate with Product Owners, architects, business analysts, Tech Leads, and engineers to understand requirements and deliver practical, well-designed solutions. Develop and customize CMS capabilities using Wagtail, integrate PostgreSQL, and design robust task and messaging solutions. Build and consume REST APIs and microservices, applying established API practices including OpenAPI and Swagger. Contribute to cloud-based applications using AWS, modern CI/CD and code-quality tooling, Git, automated testing, and collaborative code reviews. What We’re Looking For Strong hands-on software engineering experience, with significant experience using Python and Django or Flask/FastAPI, alongside front-end development using Angular (at least 7+ years). Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, SQL and NoSQL databases, data modelling, distributed systems, and communication protocols. Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, alongside AWS cloud services

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . As a Staff Software Engineer on the FinHub - Transfers team within the Platform group, you'll own the architectural direction of the systems that power crypto and fiat fund movements across Coinbase. The Transfers team builds one of the most critical and high-scale distributed financial platforms in the industry, enabling fund movement for Retail, Prime, Exchange, International, and Payments products. You'll make key technical decisions, drive platform reliability and scalability improvements, and lead cross-functional initiatives that directly impact how millions of customers move money on Coinbase. What You'll Do: Own the technical architecture of Transfers' fund movement systems, driving design decisions on distributed system structure, correctness guarantees, and scalability across crypto and fiat rails Lead complex, cross-team engineering initiatives end-to-end, partnering with Payments, Trading, and product engineering teams to deliver new fund movement capabilities and platform improvements Drive the evolution of Transfers' backend infrastructure using modern cloud-native patterns, proactively identifying scaling bottlenecks and architecting solutions before they impact customers Establish engineering standards, code review practices, and architectural patterns that raise the quality bar across the team and reduce operational risk in high-correctness financial

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . As a Senior Software Engineer on the Overseer team within FinHub in the Platform group, you'll build and scale the real-time integrity layer that enforces financial correctness across every Coinbase fund flow. Overseer makes the rules that must always hold between systems explicit, detects violations in seconds rather than quarterly reconciliations, and works with every team at Coinbase that moves money. You'll own workstreams end-to-end, from designing correctness models with partner teams to operating detection systems in production, contributing directly to the platform that keeps billions of transactions accurate and trustworthy. What You'll Do: Build and scale real-time invariant enforcement systems across Coinbase's fund flows, contributing to the core detection engine, invariant framework, and onboarding tooling that partner teams rely on Own workstreams end-to-end, from designing correctness models with partner teams through production operation, ensuring new fund flows are covered by Overseer's integrity guarantees Develop AI-powered guardrails including predictive consistency models that flag deviations at initiation and proactive invariant discovery that surfaces coverage gaps before incidents occur Partner with teams across FinHub, Payments, and Trading to design and implement correctness contracts for new and existing fund flows, translating financial ru

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . As a Staff Engineer on the FinHub - Ledger team within the Platform group, you'll own the architectural direction of Coinbase's core ledgering systems that process billions of transactions. This team builds the foundational infrastructure that powers financial accuracy and reliability across the company. You'll make critical technical decisions, drive platform improvements, and lead high-impact cross-functional projects that define how we build scalable, highly available systems at Coinbase's growing scale. What you’ll do: Architect and build foundational backend systems with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability across ledgering and transaction processing infrastructure Drive strategic technical direction for complex, cross-team initiatives spanning engineering, product, and finance Establish and evolve platform best practices, frameworks, and architectural standards that raise the quality bar for the broader engineering organization Provide deep technical mentorship, guide design decisions, and develop senior engineers across the team Shape the team's technical roadmap by collaborating with engineering leadership to identify high-leverage investments and anticipate scaling bottlenecks Embed AI into engineering and operational practices to drive system improvements and workflow efficiency Required skills and experience: 8+ years building and ope

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform Core Automation team, you'll build the AI infrastructure and agentic systems that automate customer support and compliance operations at Coinbase. This team is reimagining what these processes look like when AI handles them end-to-end, replacing manual workflows with intelligent agents that resolve customer issues and execute compliance tasks autonomously. You'll own the design and delivery of LLM-powered systems, grounding techniques, and integration pipelines that directly reduce resolution times, cut costs, and improve accuracy across millions of customer interactions. What you’ll be doing (ie. job duties): Own the design and delivery of agentic AI systems that power Coinbase's customer support and compliance automation, from LLM orchestration through production deployment and monitoring. Build scalable, secure backend infrastructure in Python and Golang that serves AI workloads, including model integration pipelines, guardrails, grounding mechanisms, and measurement frameworks. Drive end-to-end project execution on complex AI initiatives, making technical trade-offs across latency, accuracy, cost, and reliability. Partner with Customer Experience, Compliance, and product engineering teams to identify high-impact automation opportunities and translate operational pain points into AI-powered solutions. Strengthen engine

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . As a Senior Software Engineer on the Risk Engineering team within the Consumer & Business group, you'll build and optimize the systems that detect and prevent fraud, manage credit and market risk, and protect millions of users from financial threats in real time at crypto-market scale. You'll provide technical leadership for end-to-end projects, drive architectural decisions that shape our risk detection and mitigation systems, and deliver complex features from inception through production. Your work directly reduces financial loss and keeps Coinbase users safe. What you'll do: Lead the design and delivery of complex risk platform features end-to-end, from architecture through implementation, deployment, and monitoring, with stringent requirements for correctness, performance, and reliability Drive architectural decisions that shape Coinbase's risk detection and mitigation systems, translating ambiguous business requirements into scalable working architectures that balance fraud prevention with user experience Partner cross-functionally with Data Science, ML, Risk Analysts, Product, and Compliance teams to build proactive systems (real-time decisioning engines, model-driven fraud detection) and reactive solutions (incident response tooling, compliance-driven risk controls) Build AI-native risk systems that leverage fleets of agents to automate complex detection a

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Airports team is part of a mission-critical endeavor that keeps travelers moving smoothly. As an engineer on our team, your role will be essential in making sure drivers and riders enjoy a dependable experience at airports. You'll work hand in hand with various teams across Lyft, fostering collaboration and driving innovation to tackle the unique challenges of the travel and airports industry. Your responsibilities will also involve managing real-time communication with airports, ensuring our technology integrates seamlessly into their operations. Your skills will be the driving force behind enhancing the airport journey for millions. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience. Lead large features from idea to positive execution and launch Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Participate in our teams on call rotation. Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms Have the ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience 2-5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience Experience with Python, Go Proficiency in object-oriented programming Experience working with data structures or algorithms Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team Bonus points: experience pursuing side projects or open-source project Benefits: Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled M

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Airports team is part of a mission-critical endeavor that keeps travelers moving smoothly. As an engineer on our team, your role will be essential in making sure drivers and riders enjoy a dependable experience at airports. You'll work hand in hand with various teams across Lyft, fostering collaboration and driving innovation to tackle the unique challenges of the travel and airports industry. Your responsibilities will also involve managing real-time communication with airports, ensuring our technology integrates seamlessly into their operations. Your skills will be the driving force behind enhancing the airport journey for millions. Responsibilities: Drive high-impact projects and innovate new solutions to provide the best user experience. Lead large features from idea to positive execution and launch Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Participate in our teams on call rotation. Identify, triage, debug and resolve issues/bugs across our various applications and platforms Have the ability to explain the various trade offs made in decisions Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Experience: BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience 2-5+ years of software engineering/production infrastructure industry experience Experience with Python, Go Proficiency in object-oriented programming Experience working with data structures or algorithms Ability to work with a low-ego, highly collaborative, and cross-functional team Bonus points: experience pursuing side projects or open-source project Please submit your resume in English.

Senior Backend Software Engineer About Syllo Syllo is on a mission to transform litigation. Our product is a unified litigation platform that enables lawyers and paralegals to safely harness the power of language models and agentic AI throughout the litigation life cycle. Since going to market, we have gained a diverse group of enterprise customers, including some of the biggest law firms and corporations in the country, and we are quickly expanding. By reducing the expense of litigation industry-wide, we aim to improve access to high-quality representation and promote the alignment of legal outcomes with merit. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Back-End Engineer who is excited to build and scale systems that power intelligent data experiences. If you’re passionate about clean architecture, reliable APIs, and high-performance infrastructure — and you love working in a dynamic startup environment — we’d love to meet you. The Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain Syllo’s backend systems and APIs to support our data platform. Collaborate closely with front-end engineers, product managers, and data teams to deliver scalable, high-quality features. Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. Work on system design and architecture to improve performance, reliability, and scalability. Integrate data sources and third-party tools as needed to enhance platform capabilities. Participate in technical design discussions, peer code reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives. Qualifications 6+ years of professional engineering experience. Strong programming skills in Ruby or Python. Experience developing APIs using frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Flask, or Django. Proficiency with relational databases, full-text search engines, and/or vector databases. Familiarity with distributed systems and cloud technologies (e.g., GCP, Pub/Sub, Kafka). Exce

Your wellbeing, our mission. Join a company shaping a healthier world. GET TO KNOW US At Wellhub we're revolutionizing workplace wellness. Our platform connects employees worldwide to the best partners for fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep—all in one simple subscription. Headquartered in NYC with team members in Europe, North America and South America, we’re on a mission to make every company a wellness company. We believe work should be fulfilling, inspiring, and balanced. Here, you’ll find a team that values wellbeing, collaboration, and different perspectives, where passion and creativity push boundaries to create real impact. Your contributions will help shape a healthier, more balanced world for you and millions of people globally. Join us in redefining the future of wellbeing! THE OPPORTUNITY We are hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer in our CARE - AI Engine team in Brazil ! This is a Remote – Brazil position, meaning you can work from anywhere within the country. Please note that this role is only open to candidates in Brazil. We build AI-powered backend services that put LLMs in front of real users. We need a senior engineer who can ship them and keep them reliable, observable, and fast in production. YOUR IMPACT As a Senior Backend Software Engineer on the AI Engine team , you will: Design and ship AI-powered features end to end. You own quality, latency, and cost. Build backend services and APIs that hold up under real load. Instrument what you ship, watch the numbers, fix what's wrong. Review code and designs critically. Push back when something doesn't add up. Help taking prompt, retrieval, and agent changes from experiment to production. Live the mission: inspire and empower others by genuinely caring for your own wellbeing and your colleagues. Bring wellbeing to the forefront of work, and create a supportive environment where everyone feels comfortable taking care of themselves, taking time off,

Your wellbeing, our mission. Join a company shaping a healthier world. GET TO KNOW US At Wellhub we're revolutionizing workplace wellness. Our platform connects employees worldwide to the best partners for fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep—all in one simple subscription. Headquartered in NYC with team members in Europe, North America and South America, we’re on a mission to make every company a wellness company. We believe work should be fulfilling, inspiring, and balanced. Here, you’ll find a team that values wellbeing, collaboration, and different perspectives, where passion and creativity push boundaries to create real impact. Your contributions will help shape a healthier, more balanced world for you and millions of people globally. Join us in redefining the future of wellbeing! THE OPPORTUNITY We are hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer in our CARE - AI Engine team in Brazil ! This is a Remote – Brazil position, meaning you can work from anywhere within the country. Please note that this role is only open to candidates in Brazil. We build AI-powered backend services that put LLMs in front of real users. We need a senior engineer who can ship them and keep them reliable, observable, and fast in production. YOUR IMPACT As a Senior Backend Software Engineer on the AI Engine team, you will: Design and ship AI-powered features end to end. You own quality, latency, and cost. Build backend services and APIs that hold up under real load. Instrument what you ship, watch the numbers, fix what's wrong. Review code and designs critically. Push back when something doesn't add up. Help taking prompt, retrieval, and agent changes from experiment to production. Live the mission: inspire and empower others by genuinely caring for your own wellbeing and your colleagues. Bring wellbeing to the forefront of work, and create a supportive environment where everyone feels comfortable taking care of themselves, taking time off, and find

About the Team OpenAI’s Applications Engineering organization builds and operates the products (such as ChatGPT & Codex) that bring our cutting-edge research to millions of users and developers worldwide. The Applied Foundations team owns the core product and platform layers that make those experiences possible — from identity & access, to safety to payments & commerce across all of our apps. Our teams span product engineering, infrastructure, and safety, working together to deliver technology that is reliable, secure, and trusted at global scale. About the Role We’re hiring Backend Software Engineers to design and implement safe services and infrastructure that power our core products. What You’ll Do Architect, build, and improve scalable backend systems and APIs. Drive performance, reliability, and safety across distributed services. Implement data storage, retrieval, compute, and integration solutions. Participate in long-term architectural planning and technical design reviews. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design solutions that protect against and mitigate adversarial attacks without compromising user experience. You Might Thrive Here If You: Have strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, and backend languages (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, C++). Have experience setting up and maintaining production backend services and data pipelines. Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed. Enjoy building resilient services that handle large scale and complexity. Are self-directed and enjoy figuring out the best way to solve a particular problem Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek

Who We Are Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation , more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it. You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries. About the Role We are a small, dynamic team and are looking for software engineers who thrive in a high growth environment working alongside teammates to launch products and features that will be utilized by customers across the globe. As part of the Software Engineering team, you’ll have ownership of one or more projects on various product or platform facing teams. You will work across the full software stack and collaborate cross functionally to build the latest iterations of Verkada’s flagship software, enabling our best-in-class security systems. We consider our team a startup within a startup, with a fair amount of ownership and autonomy. You’ll be working alongside a dynamic team of mobile, and frontend engineers to develop this product line. Who You Are Excited by new products and startups You think about delivering best-in-class products a

A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations use data. Our Software Engineers are involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, and production delivery. You will collaborate closely with technical and non-technical teammates to understand our customers' problems and build products that solve them. We encourage movement across teams to share context, skills, and experience, so you'll learn about many different technologies and aspects of each product. Engineers work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop, becoming a strong technical contributor and engineering leader. Our Product Development organization is made up of small teams of Software Engineers. Each team focuses on a specific aspect of a product. Our infrastructure teams are responsible for the lowest layers of our software stack, often focused on database technologies, distributed systems, large scale data systems, security, and application infrastructure. As a Software Engineer on infrastructure working on our Foundry platform, you'll contribute high-quality code to underpin Palantir Foundry and Gotham with performant, secure, and scalable building blocks, enabling products deployed to the most important institutions in the public and private sector. You'll build the foundational capabilities that power our products used by research scientists, aerospace engineers, intelligence analysts, and economic forecasters, in countries around the world. We’re hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems and empowerin

A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role Software Engineers at Palantir build software at scale to transform how organizations use data. Our Software Engineers are involved throughout the product lifecycle, from idea generation, design, prototyping, and production delivery. You will collaborate closely with technical and non-technical teammates to understand our customers' problems and build products that solve them. We encourage movement across teams to share context, skills, and experience, so you'll learn about many different technologies and aspects of each product. Engineers work autonomously and make decisions independently, within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow and develop, becoming a strong technical contributor and engineering leader. Our Product Development organization is made up of small teams of Software Engineers. Each team focuses on a specific aspect of a product. Our infrastructure teams are responsible for the lowest layers of our software stack, often focused on database technologies, distributed systems, large scale data systems, security, and application infrastructure. As a Software Engineer on infrastructure working on our Foundry platform, you'll contribute high-quality code to underpin Palantir Foundry and Gotham with performant, secure, and scalable building blocks, enabling products deployed to the most important institutions in the public and private sector. You'll build the foundational capabilities that power our products used by research scientists, aerospace engineers, intelligence analysts, and economic forecasters, in countries around the world. We’re hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems and empowerin