Senior Backend Engineer, Python/FastAPI – Media & Streaming

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September 7

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Sequoia Connect

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Recruitment • HR Tech • Enterprise

Sequoia Connect is a company that specializes in IT advisory and talent services particularly focused on digital transformation. They provide headhunting services for technology specialists, IT consulting, and recruitment process outsourcing. With operations spread across multiple countries including the USA, Mexico, India, and regions in Latin America, they connect technologists with global companies. They aim to optimize processes, reduce operating costs, and maintain high standards of technological innovation. Sequoia Connect supports digital transformation for both multinational corporations and agile startups, serving over 700 clients across 50+ countries.

11 - 50 employees

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain high-quality, modular, and well-annotated Python code. • Design and implement APIs to integrate and propagate data across remote systems, ensuring graceful handling of full and partial failures. • Build observable systems by incorporating effective logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting practices. • Write and review GitHub pull requests, ensuring code quality through thorough testing, type annotations, and documentation. • Actively participate in the design and architecture phases of new features and services, ensuring scalability and performance. • Collaborate with a cross-functional team of software engineers, data engineers, and product managers to deliver new product features.

🎯 Requirements

• A minimum of 3+ years of professional software development experience. • Must be highly proficient in modern Python, including writing modular and maintainable code. • Strong understanding of asynchronous patterns like asyncio, threading, and multiprocessing. • Expertise in writing and reviewing unit tests using pytest, with a focus on mocking. • Hands-on experience building RESTful APIs with FastAPI and familiarity with Celery for distributed task processing. • Experience working with major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or OCI. • Hands-on experience with Docker and knowledge of Linux environments. • Experience with Terraform or similar tools is a plus. • Experience with Kubernetes or general cloud infrastructure is a bonus. • Ability to build observable systems with effective logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting. • Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking fundamentals, including DNS, HTTP requests, and subnetting. • Proficiency in reading and writing basic SQL queries. • Knowledge of CDN or Multi-CDN architectures and ABR streaming concepts is a plus. • Familiarity with Go or Rust is desired. • Experience with observability systems, log aggregation, metrics pipelines, and ETL processes. • Understanding of Python type annotations and modular application design. • Experience in API orchestration in multi-CDN environments is a bonus. • Background in distributed systems and designing fault-tolerant architectures. • Languages: Advanced Oral English. • Candidates in Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, or Argentina—in LATAM in general—can fill the role.

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote