Senior Python Backend Engineer

🕒 August 5

🇺🇦 Ukraine – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Suntech Innovation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

B2B • Enterprise

Suntech Innovation is a Kyiv-based software development and infrastructure engineering firm that provides customized software solutions, R&D and product development, and manual and automated QA. The company offers front-end and back-end development services focused on building robust, available systems and reducing technical risk across the software development lifecycle, while fostering an open, growth-oriented workplace culture.

📋 Description

• Contribute significantly to the architecture and implementation approach for the team's backend systems and influence technical direction • Design and build production Python services, including APIs, stream consumers, pipelines, feature stores, and background workers • Set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, and deployment discipline • Take ownership of deployment and release, partnering with DevOps on Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD • Productionize data scientists' experimentation into reliable services • Raise the technical bar through review, mentorship, and example • Participate in the team's on-call rotation for systems built and operated • Partner with product and business stakeholders to shape and scope work

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience • Strong Python skills, including async, data processing, Redis, Kafka, database clients, and PySpark • Strong relational database skills, plus Redis and Kafka design and performance tuning • Good working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD • Experience contributing to and influencing architecture and implementation approach for a team • Deployment and release ownership • Product mindset and comfort speaking to customers and business stakeholders • Databricks experience is nice to have • Experience building LLM-powered systems, including human-in-the-loop and agentic workflows, is nice to have • Fraud detection, recommendation systems, or personalization systems experience is nice to have • Prometheus and Grafana experience is nice to have • SaaS or high-scale product domain experience is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Modern stack and mature Agile culture • High autonomy and decision-making authority • Close cooperation with leadership • Opportunity to contribute ideas for improvement • Continuous self-improvement and growth • Budget for certifications and courses • Competitive salary plus annual bonus based on individual, team, and company performance • Company prepaid AI agent • Medical insurance coverage • English language courses • Wellbeing package: online-yoga classes, Yakaboo, BetterMe App: Health Coaching, BetterMe App: Mental Health • Corporate events and fun team-building activities • Remote-first culture • Possibility to work from the Kyiv office