Backend Platform Engineer (Python/FastAPI)

🚀 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 a Backend Platform Engineer  to join our team  and work within the AI Platform team of a large-scale organization🐶🚀
This team maintains the backend platform behind the organization's AI models and agents, including the services that integrate with agentic AI, observability, and MCP servers.  Hybrid work model.

🚀 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 (https://blog.muttdata.ai/tag/Case%20Studies/1) case studies and dive into ourblog post (https://blog.muttdata.ai/) to learn more about our culture and the exciting projects we’re working on! 🚀

Responsibilities 🤓

- Design and develop backend services with FastAPI.

- Integrate the platform with agentic AI services.

- Maintain the platform for agentic models, including its observability.

- Develop and manage MCP servers throughout their entire lifecycle.

- Design and operate relational and non-relational databases.

- Apply good authentication and security practices.

- Collaborate across the full stack (frontend, backend, and AI).

Required Skills 💻

- 5+ years of experience with Python and strong command of its best practices.

- Advanced knowledge of FastAPI or similar frameworks.

- Experience with relational and non-relational databases.

- Knowledge of platforms for agentic models and of observability.

- Knowledge of MCP development and lifecycle.

- Familiarity with LangChain and LangGraph.

- Experience integrating agentic AI services.

- Basic knowledge of cloud.

- Experience working in platform teams.

- Good authentication and security practices.

- Curiosity, a drive to stay up to date, and willingness to work across the full stack.

- Stack: Python, FastAPI, LangChain, LangGraph, MCP, relational and non-relational databases, Cloud.

Nice to have 💻

- React and TypeScript.

🎁 Perks

- 🌍 Remote-first cultur e – work from anywhere!

- 🚀 In-Company English Lessons.

- 💪 Wellhub or sports club stipend to stay active

- 🚀 AWS, DBT, Google Cloud, Azure & Databricks certifications fully covered

- 🍕 Food credits via Pedidos Ya – because great work deserves great food.

- 🎂 Birthday off + an extra vacation week (Mutt Week! 🏖️)

- 🤝 Referral bonuses – help us grow the team & get rewarded!

- ✈️ 🏝️ Annual Mutters' Trip – an unforgettable getaway with the team!

- 👶 Monthly Childcare Reimbursement – Because supporting families matters too