Principal Backend Engineer, Python

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November 21

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Manila Recruitment

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Recruitment • Enterprise

Manila Recruitment is a leading recruitment agency based in the Philippines, specializing in innovative talent sourcing and headhunting services. The agency provides a wide range of recruitment solutions including executive search, IT recruitment, offshore staffing solutions, remote staffing, and more. With a focus on understanding clients' strategic business objectives, Manila Recruitment offers tailored recruitment strategies for multinationals, corporations, and start-ups entering the Filipino market. The firm prides itself on a process-driven approach, offering comprehensive candidate guarantees and a database of over 250,000 candidates. Certified headhunters at Manila Recruitment are dedicated to passive candidate sourcing, ensuring quality hires that align with company culture and requirements.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2010

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🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• Define and own the technical strategy for backend systems powering content ingestion, creator tooling, media pipelines, personalization/feeds, and commerce triggers • Architect and build high-scale, low-latency services in Go and Python that drive the creator-video-commerce stack: ingestion → processing → delivery → transaction • Lead large, complex projects: evolving micro-services architecture, scaling to millions of events/requests per minute, ensuring reliability, cost-efficiency and observability • Collaborate with product, design, data/ML, and creator-ops to anticipate the next wave of content-commerce innovation (for example: shoppable video, live drops, creator-marketplaces) • Own production operations for critical systems: service reliability, incident response, capacity planning, performance optimization

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering with deep backend expertise • At least 6 years of experience and hands-on mastery Python in production environments • Proven track record architecting large distributed systems, micro-services, event-driven pipelines, real-time data flows and commerce or media-driven workflows • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code, and operational excellence • Deep familiarity with data stores (SQL + NoSQL/kv), message queues/streaming (Kafka, Pub/Sub, etc), API design (REST/gRPC), and performance/scale trade-offs • Self-Starter and is able to work without direct communication with other engineers • Strong strategic mindset: able to make decisions under ambiguity, drive technical vision, and lead across teams • Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical strategy to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, or related field • Go development experience • Background in personalization, recommendation systems, feed ranking, or analytics/ML infrastructure • Experience building creator platforms, video commerce, live streaming ecosystems, or social/interactive media products • Experience building platforms in B2B Software as a Service