Senior Backend Engineer – Python, Django

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October 10

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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

🎯 Recruiter

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

•Own the backend development of our next-generation B2B SaaS product: Django REST APIs consumed by a React SPA through App Gateway + WAF •Implement secure authentication/authorization (Azure AD SSO, optional Okta), role-based access, and multi-tenant patterns •Build and operate resilient async pipelines (Celery/Redis) for file processing and job orchestration; expose job status to the UI •Integrate external systems: HubSpot (REST/webhooks), Outlook/SMTP notifications, and OpenAI endpoints for workflow automation •Design and maintain schemas in Azure SQL; manage artifacts/results in Azure Blob Storage with proper retention and lineage •Ensure the performance, scalability, and reliability of internal-facing and external-facing services; profile and optimize Python code and SQL •Instrument observability (structured logs, metrics, tracing via App Insights/Azure Monitor/OpenTelemetry); create runbooks and SLAs/SLOs •Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code; contribute to code reviews and engineering standards •Keep up to date with backend, security, and Azure best practices; participate in threat modeling and periodic hardening

🎯 Requirements

•At least 5 years of experience building production backend systems with Python, Django/DRF or FastAPI and SQL •Track record designing and operating RESTful APIs and asynchronous workers (Celery/Redis), including idempotency, retries, and monitoring •Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (App Service, App Gateway + WAF, Azure AD/OIDC, Key Vault, Azure SQL, Blob Storage, Monitor/App Insights); AWS or GCP experience can also be considered •Proven experience integrating third-party platforms (e.g., HubSpot APIs, webhooks; SMTP/Outlook; OpenAI APIs) •Strong data modeling and query-tuning skills; comfortable with schema migrations and performance diagnostics •Proficient with testing and CI/CD (pytest, Git/GitHub, GitHub Actions); code reviews and documentation •Solid understanding of security best practices (OWASP, secrets management, RBAC, encryption at rest/in transit) and awareness of GDPR •Excellent problem-solving skills, resourceful, proactive, and willing to take ownership •Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, or related field