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Apex Digital
Senior Backend Engineer
Required Skills
Job Description
We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build and scale our core APIs and data pipeline infrastructure.
**What you'll do**
- Design and implement high-throughput REST and GraphQL APIs in Python (FastAPI/Django)
- Lead architectural discussions and code reviews
- Partner with ML team to productionise model inference endpoints
- Own reliability — on-call rotation, SLO definition, runbook authorship
**Requirements**
- 5+ years of Python backend development
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL and Redis
- Familiarity with AWS (ECS, RDS, SQS, S3)
- Experience with distributed systems and async patterns
**Nice to have**
- Contributions to open-source Python projects
- Experience with Kubernetes or Terraform
- Previous startup experience