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

• Develop and maintain high-quality, modular, and well-annotated Python code. • Design and implement APIs to integrate and propagate data across remote systems, ensuring graceful handling of full and partial failures. • Build observable systems by incorporating effective logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting practices. • Write and review GitHub pull requests, ensuring code quality through thorough testing, type annotations, and documentation. • Actively participate in the design and architecture phases of new features and services, ensuring scalability and performance. • Collaborate with a cross-functional team of software engineers, data engineers, and product managers to deliver new product features. • Focus on backend systems that power the media and streaming platform.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 3+ years of professional software development experience. • Highly proficient in modern Python, including writing modular and maintainable code. • Strong understanding of asynchronous patterns and concepts like asyncio, event loops, threading, and multiprocessing. • Hands-on experience with FastAPI and Celery. • Expertise in writing and reviewing unit tests using pytest, focusing on 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) and exposure to building RESTful APIs. • Familiarity with Go or Rust (desired). • Knowledge of CDN or Multi-CDN architectures and ABR (Adaptive Bitrate) streaming concepts (desired). • Experience with observability systems, log aggregation, metrics pipelines, and ETL processes (desired). • Understanding of Python type annotations and modular application design (desired). • Experience in API orchestration in multi-CDN environments (desired). • Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling (desired). • Background in distributed systems and designing fault-tolerant architectures (desired). • Experience with Kubernetes or general cloud infrastructure (bonus). • Advanced Oral English. • Locations: Candidates in Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, or Argentina — LATAM.

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote