Senior Python Backend Engineer

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🕒 May 4

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Workana

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

👥 HR Tech

🏪 Marketplace

🎯 Recruiter

💰 Series C on 2024-02

HR Tech • Marketplace • Recruitment

Workana is a leading platform in Latin America that connects businesses with remote talent across various disciplines. With over a decade in the market, Workana specializes in providing businesses with pre-selected and certified developers and freelancers for specific time periods or project-based tasks. The platform supports hiring in diverse fields such as IT & Programming, Design & Multimedia, Writing & Translation, and more, offering payment flexibility in local currencies or USD. Workana ensures satisfaction with protected payments and a satisfaction guarantee, aiming to grow businesses quickly and sustainably by leveraging the best remote talent available.

📋 Description

• Build and scale backend APIs for live e-commerce use cases • Develop and improve backend functionality for search systems • Work on scalability, performance, reliability, and cost optimization • Improve API response times and server-side platform performance • Integrate machine learning workflows into backend production systems • Build and support backend components for search, personalization, and recommendation use cases • Work with technologies such as Python, Flask, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and AWS • Own features end-to-end, from design and development to deployment, monitoring, and support • Collaborate closely with the backend lead and broader team while taking responsibility for core backend work

🎯 Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience with Python, ideally Flask or Django • Proven experience building production-grade REST APIs • Hands-on experience with MySQL and Redis • Strong experience with Elasticsearch • Practical experience with semantic search, relevance tuning, ranking, or recommendation systems • Strong experience with AWS; ECS experience is preferred • Experience with AWS data services such as Athena, DynamoDB, Firehose, and S3 • Experience with GitHub workflows, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines • Working knowledge of JavaScript and React • Proven experience operating high-scale, low-latency production systems • Experience working with large codebases or large applications at scale • Experience integrating AI/ML workflows into production environments • Ability to work independently, learn quickly, and contribute without heavy day-to-day hand-holding • Familiarity with Shopify APIs or the Shopify ecosystem is a plus, but not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote role open to candidates across Latin America • Opportunity to work on a high-scale e-commerce personalization and search platform • Backend-first role with strong ownership over production systems • Work closely with a small team where your contributions can have direct impact • Exposure to search, recommendation systems, scalability, and AI/ML production workflows