At SIROC we are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our worldwide team. As a Backend Engineer, you will play a necessary role in our team, focusing on building web applications and working together with our engineers, project managers, designers, and venture investors. Your ability to learn and stay up-to-date with the latest frameworks and community updates will play a key role in the success of our experimental SaaS and B2B products and the digital AI transformation of our customers.

🎯 What You’ll Do

• Design custom REST API services.

• Design backend application infrastructures in coordination with DevOps engineers.

• Design and implement custom SQL and nonSQL database schemas.

• Optimize database queries for a performant backend application.

• Implement custom application business logic and negotiate with front-end and data engineers' data schemas.

• Build deployment and CLI pipelines.

• Ensure scalability, flexibility, and maintainability of the implemented applications.

• Proactively assess and ensure code quality by using appropriate tools and principles.

• Proactively communicating with colleagues to refine application design.

• Writing meaningful, clean code and doing code reviews.

• Assisting your colleagues to achieve their goals.

🤩 What We Expect From You

• Fluent in English with excellent oral and written communication skills.

• University degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar is highly desirable.

• Proficiency in working with Git, defining pipelines, GitHub actions, and continuous integration.

• Proficiency in working on Python, pyenv, PIP, and its IDE environment (PyCharm or equivalent).

• Expertise in building APIs using FastAPI or similar.

• Expertise with SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, TimescaleDB, ...).

• Expertise with non-SQL databases (MongoDB).

• Experience with frameworks such as Redis, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Celery, or others.

• Experience in Docker, Docker-Compose, and DevOps is highly valued.

• Experience in Kotlin or Java is valued (Spring Boot) but not required.

• Ability to motivate, encourage, persuade, increase cooperation, and reduce tension among team members.

• Experience working in an Agile environment.

• Ability to prioritize, organize, and execute within a high-pressure environment.

💻 Our Offer

• Fully remote position in a fully distributed team.

• Flexible schedule (you define when you want to work).

• A competitive salary in the industry based on your experience and skillset.

• A brand new MacBook Pro (or equivalent) as a working laptop.