Lead Backend Engineer, Python/Django

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B2B • eCommerce • SaaS

Search Atlas is an all-in-one SEO software platform designed to streamline and enhance the online presence of marketing agencies. It features a variety of tools including automation for SEO tasks, keyword research, content generation, backlink analysis, and local SEO management. With capabilities such as real-time site auditing, competitor analysis, and customizable dashboards, Search Atlas aims to maximize organic traffic and improve SEO performance for businesses of all sizes.

11 - 50 employees

🤝 B2B

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Lead backend development for the product team, ensuring alignment with company-wide engineering standards. • Translate product objectives into actionable technical plans and milestones. • Build and maintain scalable Django REST applications and well-documented APIs. • Oversee efficient, fault-tolerant background task processing with Celery. • Contribute to architecture design to improve scalability, maintainability, and performance. • Mentor and lead engineers through code reviews and promote a collaborative, high-performing culture. • Partner with Product, QA, DevOps, and Frontend teams to deliver reliable end-to-end features. • Implement strong engineering practices including TDD, linting, and test coverage enforcement. • Monitor and optimize systems using Sentry, Datadog, and Grafana for observability and stability. • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across applications, databases, and task queues.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience with Python 3 and Django REST Framework • Prior experience mentoring engineers or acting as a tech lead on a product team • Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining production-grade REST APIs • Strong experience with PostgreSQL in production environments • Experience with Celery or equivalent task queue systems • Strong testing discipline (pytest, coverage, Flake8, Black, Isort) • Familiarity with Docker Compose and modern CI/CD pipelines • Experience working with Sentry, Datadog, and Grafana for monitoring and observability • Excellent communication skills, especially when working with cross-functional teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• 15 Days Paid Time Off • Christmas Day Paid Off • New Year's Day Paid Off