About this 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 (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, 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.
- Collaborate with development, data, and IT/DevOps teams on technical decisions, component integration, CI/CD pipelines, and deployments across environments, maintaining clear technical documentation.
Required Skills 🚀
- 4+ years of experience in backend development, with demonstrable participation in building, integrating, and operating production services.
- Strong command of Python and experience building REST APIs with FastAPI or equivalent frameworks.
- Experience designing modular, maintainable software, applying principles such as SOLID, separation of concerns, and automated testing best practices.
- Experience integrating APIs and distributed systems, including authentication, error handling, timeouts, retries, and resiliency patterns.
- Experience with asynchronous processing and messaging systems, using queues, dead-letter handling, and idempotency (e.g., Azure Service Bus or equivalents).
- Strong SQL and relational database skills, including modeling, querying, migrations, and ORM usage; SQL Server or Azure SQL preferred.
- Experience with Docker and deploying containerized services.
- Hands-on experience with cloud services, preferably Microsoft Azure, including monitoring, Git version control, and participation in continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) processes.
Nice to Have 😉
- Experience with AI-assisted software development using tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor, or Spec-Driven Development (SDD) practices, with sound judgment to validate the quality, security, and maintainability of generated code.
- Experience integrating and orchestrating data processes from backend services, especially with Azure Databricks or other processing platforms.
- Experience with containerized infrastructure in the cloud, including Kubernetes/AKS or Azure Container Registry.
- Familiarity with Martech, engagement, or digital experimentation platforms, including push, email, in-app communications integrations, or A/B testing.
🎁 Perks
- Remote-first culture – work from anywhere! 🌍
- AWS, DBT, Google Cloud, Azure & Databricks certifications fully covered
- Birthday off + an extra vacation week (Mutt Week! 🏖️)
- Referral bonuses – help us grow the team & get rewarded!
- Maslow (https://maslow.hr/): Monthly credits to spend in our benefits marketplace.
- ✈️ 🏝️Annual Mutters' Trip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq1x2krHGb8&t=2s) – an unforgettable getaway with the team!