Senior Python Backend Engineer

About us We are a product R&D company that creates solutions for the dynamic iGaming Ecosystem. Our mission is to build cutting-edge platforms that reinvent the iGaming industry.

About the team

We are a focused engineering team of 5 to 9 people at a multi-product tech SaaS company. We work across personalization, recommendation, fraud detection, and some GenAI, through real-time, near-real-time, and batch pipelines. The team is a blend of Python backend engineers, ML engineers, QA (manual and automation), a data engineer, and data scientists. Our shared mandate is to take experimentation from our data scientists and turn it into robust, production-grade systems, either as standalone services or integrated into wider platforms.

The role

You will be a senior engineer on the team, building and operating backend systems and setting a high bar through your work. You will contribute significantly to architecture and technical direction and strongly influence how we build, working alongside other senior engineers and a hands-on engineering manager, while staying hands-on across the hardest problems. The systems you work on are either part of a larger SaaS backend or run as standalone services: batch and event-driven pipelines, stream consumers, feature stores, REST APIs, and background workers.

 Responsibilities

• Contribute significantly to the architecture and implementation approach for the team's backend systems, and influence technical direction

• Design and build production Python services: APIs, stream consumers, pipelines, feature stores, background workers

• Set and uphold engineering standards: code quality, testing, observability, deployment discipline

• Take ownership of deployment and release, partnering with DevOps on Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD

• Productionize data scientists' experimentation into reliable services

• Raise the technical bar through review, mentorship, and example

• Take part in the team's on-call rotation for the systems you build and operate

• Partner with product and business stakeholders to shape and scope work

  Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience

• Strong Python: async, data processing, Redis, Kafka, and database clients, PySpark

• Strong relational database skills, plus Redis and Kafka (design and performance tuning)

• Good working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, enough to partner well with DevOps

• Experience contributing to and influencing architecture and implementation approach for a team

• Deployment and release ownership

• Product mindset, comfortable speaking to customers and business stakeholders

Nice to have

• Databricks experience

• Experience building LLM-powered systems, including human-in-the-loop and agentic workflows

• Fraud detection, recsys, or personalization systems experience

• Prometheus and Grafana

• SaaS or high-scale product domain experience

Why join us

• Work on high-scale, high-throughput backend systems

• Broad range of technologies, stacks, and problems

• Take experimentation from data scientists and turn it into production systems

• A strong engineering culture that values technical depth and ownership

• A distributed team across Dubai and Europe

You will get:

• Work in a technically strong environment with modern stack and mature Agile culture;

• High autonomy, decision-making authority, and close cooperation with leadership;

• A position in a product development company with a dynamic environment and several concurrent projects;

• Opportunity to contribute (your ideas for improvement implementation);

• Continuous self-improvement and growth, including budget for certifications and courses;

• Competitive salary plus annual bonus, based on individual, team, and company performance;

• Company prepaid AI agent;

• Medical insurance coverage;

• English language courses;

• Wellbeing package: online-yoga classes, Yakaboo, BetterMe App: Health Coaching, BetterMe App: Mental Health;

• Corporate events and fun team-building activities;

• Remote-first culture (with a possibility to work from our Kyiv office)

Interview Stages:

• HR Interview (30-45 minutes) — Initial conversation to discuss your experience, career goals, and cultural fit.

• Technical Interview (1 hour) — In-depth technical interview covering relevant skills.

• Technical Design Interview (LLD/HLD) (1 hour) — In-depth technical interview covering relevant skills.

• Final Interview (1 hour) — A comprehensive discussion with the hiring manager, focusing on role-specific competencies and alignment with company values.

• Reference Check & Job Offer