Senior Backend Engineer (Python+Django)

Company is looking a Senior Backend Engineer for a high\-impact, high\-ownership role. You will work directly with the company’s founders to shape the technical direction of consumer data privacy software in a fast\-paced, early\-stage environment. **Key responsibilities:** * Design maintainable, scalable backend components * Implement third\-party API integrations * Apply testing strategies to ensure high\-quality code * Diagnose and resolve performance issues * Maintain best practices for user data security Requirements: **Requirements:** * 6\+ years as a backend or full\-stack engineer building web applications \- * Python/Django: 3\+ years of experience with Python and Django * Frameworks: Django REST Framework and/or django\-ninja * Scalability: Proven experience running Django at scale * Asynchronous Systems: Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis * Databases: Postgres and NoSQL (Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Cassandra) * Infrastructure: Kubernetes, microservices, resource management * Cloud: AWS preferred; GCP or Azure acceptable * Frontend: Working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript * Bonus: React, HTMX, automation tools, or consumer privacy industry experience