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

• Design and implement robust backend systems powering a media and streaming platform • Develop and maintain high-quality, modular, and well-annotated Python code • Design and implement APIs to integrate and propagate data across remote systems, handling full and partial failures gracefully • Build observable systems through logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting • Write and review GitHub pull requests, ensuring code quality via testing, type annotations, and documentation • Participate in design and architecture phases for new features and services to ensure scalability and performance • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (software engineers, data engineers, product managers) to deliver new product features

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 3+ years of professional software development experience • Highly proficient in modern Python (writing modular and maintainable code) • Strong understanding of asynchronous patterns (asyncio, event loops, threading, multiprocessing) • Hands-on experience with FastAPI and Celery • Expertise writing and reviewing unit tests using pytest with mocking • Proficient in reading and writing basic SQL queries • Understanding of TCP/IP networking fundamentals, including DNS, HTTP requests, and subnetting • Experience with Docker and Linux environments • Experience working with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, OCI) • Exposure to building RESTful APIs • Familiarity with Go or Rust (desired) • Knowledge of CDN or Multi-CDN architectures and ABR streaming concepts (desired) • Experience with observability systems, log aggregation, metrics pipelines, and ETL processes (desired) • Understanding of Python type annotations and modular application design • Experience in API orchestration in multi-CDN environments (desired) • Experience with Terraform or other IaC tooling (desired) • Background in distributed systems and designing fault-tolerant architectures (desired) • Experience with Kubernetes or general cloud infrastructure (bonus) • Advanced oral English • Candidates located in Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, or Argentina (LATAM)

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote