#5 - Senior Backend Engineer - Python & Databricks - Mexico

About the role

🚀 Join Our Remote Data Products & Machine Learning Startup! 🚀

At Muttdata, we build innovative Data Products and Machine Learning solutions that help companies solve complex business challenges. As a fast-growing, remote-first startup, we’re passionate about technology, collaboration, and continuous learning.

We are looking for an experienced, hands-on, and ownership-driven Backend Engineer (Advanced) to join our team 🐶🚀. In this role you will design, build, and operate production-grade backend services and REST APIs with Python and FastAPI on Microsoft Azure, including a communications dispatch service that integrates messaging queues and external APIs such as Braze.

You will work closely with development, data, and IT/DevOps teams, integrating backend services with Azure components, relational databases, third-party APIs, and data processes running on platforms like Databricks. Reliability, observability, and clean, maintainable code are at the core of this role.

🚀 What We Do - Leveraging our expertise, we build modern Machine Learning systems for demand planning and budget forecasting.

- Developing scalable data infrastructures, we enhance high-level decision-making, tailored to each client.

- Offering comprehensive Data Engineering and custom AI solutions, we optimize cloud-based systems.

- Using Generative AI, we help e-commerce platforms and retailers create higher-quality ads, faster.

- Building deep learning models, we enhance visual recognition and automation for various industries, improving product categorization, quality control, and information retrieval.

- Developing recommendation models, we personalize user experiences in e-commerce, streaming, and digital platforms, driving engagement and conversions.

🌟 Our Partnerships - Amazon Web Services

- Astronomer

- Databricks

🌟 Our Values - 📊 We are Data Nerds

- 🤗 We are Open Team Players

- 🚀 We Take Ownership

- 🌟 We Have a Positive Mindset

🔍 Curious about what we’re up to? Check out our case studies and dive into our blog post to learn more about our culture and the exciting projects we’re working on! 🚀

Responsibilities 🤓 - Design, develop, and evolve backend services and REST APIs with Python and FastAPI, applying best practices in architecture, security, and maintainability.

- Build and operate the communications dispatch service, integrating message queues and external APIs, with idempotency, retries, rate limiting, and error handling mechanisms.

- Integrate and orchestrate platform components, including Azure services, databases, third-party APIs, and data processes running on platforms such as Databricks.

- Design and maintain persistence solutions in Azure SQL, including data modeling, migrations, data integrity, and query optimization.

- Ensure backend reliability and observability in production by implementing monitoring, tracing, automated testing, and failure recovery mechanisms.