Muttdata

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

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3 days ago
Buenos Aires, ArgentinaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and evolve maintainable backend services and REST APIs with Python and FastAPI.
  • Build and operate a communications dispatch service integrating messaging queues and external APIs such as Braze.
  • Integrate Azure services, databases, third-party APIs, and Databricks data processes.
  • Design and maintain Azure SQL persistence solutions, including data models, migrations, integrity, and query optimization.
  • Implement production reliability and observability through monitoring, tracing, automated testing, and failure recovery.
  • Collaborate with development, data, and IT/DevOps teams on technical decisions, integrations, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and documentation.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of backend development experience building, integrating, and operating production services.
  • Strong Python skills and experience building REST APIs with FastAPI or equivalent frameworks.
  • Experience designing modular software with SOLID principles, separation of concerns, and automated testing.
  • Experience integrating APIs and distributed systems with authentication, error handling, timeouts, retries, and resiliency patterns.
  • Experience with asynchronous processing and messaging systems, including queues, dead-letter handling, and idempotency.
  • Strong SQL and relational database skills covering modeling, querying, migrations, and ORM usage; SQL Server or Azure SQL is preferred.
  • Experience with Docker and containerized-service deployment.
  • Hands-on cloud-services experience, preferably with Microsoft Azure, plus monitoring, Git, and CI/CD experience.
  • Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor is a plus.
  • Experience with Azure Databricks or other data-processing platforms, Kubernetes/AKS, Azure Container Registry, or Martech and experimentation platforms is a plus.

Benefits

  • Remote-first culture with work-from-anywhere flexibility.
  • AWS, DBT, Google Cloud, Azure, and Databricks certifications fully covered.
  • Birthday off and an additional vacation week.
  • Referral bonuses.
  • Monthly Maslow credits for the benefits marketplace.
  • Annual team trip.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureDatabricksdbtDockerFastAPIGitGoogle CloudKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerPython

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About Muttdata

51-200 employees

Muttdata provides consulting and delivery of custom machine-learning and AI systems, data platforms, and big-data pipelines for digital-native startups and enterprises. The privately held company, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner with the AWS Advertising and Marketing Technologies Competency. Notable customers include Mercado Libre, Coca-Cola FEMSA Mexico, ClassDojo, and PayClip.

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