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Remote Backend Django Engineer – AI & Algorithmic Systems
Spotter Labs
Argentina, Colombia, India, Mexico, PakistanremotePosted 1 day ago
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Key highlights
- $100 assessment completion bonus.
- Remote‑first startup culture.
- Strong experience required with Python and Django.
- Work on AI‑driven and algorithmic backend systems.
- Startup mindset and ability to handle ambiguity.
Role overview
We’re a remote, product-focused startup building AI- and algorithm-driven systems, and we’re looking for a strong Backend Django Engineer who loves clean data models, well-designed APIs, and clever algorithms. You’ll own core backend features end-to-end: from modeling the data to implementing the logic and exposing it through fast, reliable services that ship to users quickly, working with a small distributed team across several countries.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement backend services and APIs using Python+ Django (and DRF or similar).
- Model and evolve our domain in the database with clean, well-structured schemas and relationships.
- Implement algorithmic/AI logic in the backend (e.g., scoring, ranking, routing, decision rules).
- Write pragmatic, production-ready code that’s easy to reason about and iterate on.
- Optimize for correctness and performance: efficient queries, smart indexing, and lean responses.
- Work with the team to turn product ideas into concrete technical designs and endpoints.
- Help shape how we build things: patterns, conventions, and how we ship and iterate as we grow.
Requirements
- Strong experience building backend applications with Python + Django.
- Solid understanding of relational data modeling and SQL (we use PostgreSQL).
- Comfortable designing and building RESTful APIs.
- Experience working on non-trivial business logic or algorithms (e.g., decision flows, scoring rules, optimization logic).
- Good instincts around performance: understanding query behavior, avoiding obvious pitfalls, and using caching when it counts.
- A startup mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, moving fast, and iterating based on real-world feedback.
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment and communicate clearly.
Nice to have
- Experience in startups, side projects, or hackathons where you’ve had to ship scrappy solutions fast.
- Background in algorithms, optimization, or data-heavy systems.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in production.
- Familiarity with Redis (caching, queues) and PostgreSQL at some scale.
- Exposure to containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and/or serverless on GCP.
Benefits
- $100 bonus after successfully completing the assessment.
- Fully remote work environment.
Additional details
- This role is a central piece of our backend roadmap, and we’re aiming to fill it quickly once we meet the right person.
- To receive the assessment, please submit your resume to this job application. If your resume is approved, you'll receive the assessment afterwards.
- Originally posted on Himalayas.