Backend Engineer • Senior

Who you are

You have at least 5 years of development experience with Python, and you thrive in collaborative environments where you can tackle complex challenges. Your expertise in Django allows you to contribute effectively to the architecture of large-scale applications, and you understand the importance of maintaining clear domain separation in service design. You are adaptable and driven, ready to face the challenges of transforming monolithic applications into efficient microservices. Your experience with cloud services like AWS and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes equips you to build robust, scalable solutions. You are comfortable working with databases like PostgreSQL and caching systems like Redis and Memcached, ensuring high performance and reliability in your services.

Desirable

Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana and message brokers such as Kafka or NATS is a plus. Familiarity with asynchronous programming in Python using AsyncIO will help you excel in this role. You appreciate an open culture that emphasizes feedback and promotes professional and personal development, and you are excited about the opportunity to work remotely with a distributed team.

What you'll do

In this role, you will contribute to the vision and architecture of the large monolith decomposition, facing and overcoming multiple scale-related technical problems. You will develop the core set of services in the company, focusing on maintenance and clear domain separation. Your responsibilities will include finding and addressing systematic issues to maintain low time-to-change for other developers, ensuring a high change-confidence level. You will collaborate closely with product, business operations, finance, and customer success teams to deliver high-performance, stable service solutions that scale with the company’s growth. You will also be involved in driving the transformation of the application platform, ensuring that the services you build are robust, efficient, and easy to integrate.

What we offer

PandaDoc offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work remotely from anywhere in Portugal. You will have access to self-care days and a culture that encourages feedback and professional growth. Our team is distributed worldwide, and you are welcome to work from our offices in Lisbon, Warsaw, or Kyiv, where you can meet with other team members in person. We believe in fostering an environment where you can thrive both personally and professionally, and we encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't match every requirement.