Senior Backend Python Engineer

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IndieBI is a first-of-its-kind business data aggregation and analytics platform for PC and Console video games.

IndieBI empowers a growing community of hundreds of games companies representing over $3B in annual revenue and 10k games and DLCs. It provides games studios with a suite of tools - sales dashboards insight reports pricing and discounting best practices -to help understand their sales and marketing information to analyze it for valuable trends and patterns and to provide them with actionable advice to optimize their sales and revenue.

At IndieBI we are building business intelligence tools to help developers and publishers of PC and Console games manage their commercial operations more efficiently. Additionally we are building the dedicated account management team that provides exclusive high-profile service tailored to the different needs of video game developers and publishers.

Youll join the team that collects pricing and promotional-discount data for video games across every major digital storefront and integrates with each platform to set and reconcile discounts. Much of the work is building the FastAPI services and data jobs behind these integrations. Its a backend Python role with a real DevOps/infrastructure component.

• Strong Python - modern type-hinted code; Pydantic v2; async/await; youre comfortable with SQLAlchemy and relational databases (Postgres SQL Server or other sql database);

• FastAPI or an equivalent modern Python web framework in production;

• Solid DevOps fundamentals - you can operate confidently with Docker a CI/CD pipeline and Kubernetes and youre not thrown by cloud infrastructure;

• Kubernetes knowledge - you understand how pods replicas deployments services and kubectl work and the role each one plays and you can operate confidently in a running cluster;

• Working Azure knowledge - identity/service principals secrets storage or messaging (Service Bus);

• Git-based workflow discipline - small reviewed MRs linters and type-checks as gates tests you can trust (uv ruff mypy pytest - or the equivalent);

• Observability - Elastic/Kibana Sentry APM or other similar tools; comfortable debugging from logs and traces;

• Fluent English (written and spoken);

• Open documented collaboration is part of how we work. GitLab MRs ADRs and Jira are our shared record of decisions and progress so clear written communication matters.
  

• Terraform/Infrastructure-as-Code (Terragrunt a plus) - reading and safely modifying modules;

• Networking/security exposure (FortiGate VPN DNS);

• Knowledge of architecture patters like leader election publisher-subscriber Cricut Breaker;

• Data-pipeline orchestration;

• Web scraping at scale - Playwright/headless browsers proxies anti-bot realities;

• Frontend: Vue 3 TypeScript. Theres some frontend work but its optional for this role - a bonus not a gate.

We appreciate that its impossible to be a specialist in everything! We do however expect that by relying on your skills and experience youll be able to fearlessly navigate through your daily tasks assessing which problems you can tackle on your own and which require the help of your colleagues. We hope that you wont be afraid to take up challenges but also wont hesitate to ask questions!

• Build and maintain typed async FastAPI services backed by PostgreSQL and MSSQL (SQLAlchemy 2.x Alembic);

• Extend storefront integrations and diagnose them when a platform changes its API or auth flow;

• Write scheduled data jobs (Airflow / containerized jobs) that scrape backfill and reconcile discount and pricing data;

• Ship your own work: Code GitLab CI Kubernetes (AKS) watch it in Elastic/Kibana Sentry and fix it in prod;

• Work with Azure day to day - service principals/Entra auth Key Vault secrets Blob storage etc;

• Make small safe changes to Terraform infrastructure and shared platform libraries;

• Resolve production issues;

• Work with internal teams on features for internal tools;

• Youll have plenty of room to grow here. We give people a lot of autonomy ownership and opportunities to shape what they do. That also means were looking for people who are curious proactive and eager to learn and test new things.

• Full time job from any place in the world with whatever type of contract suits you best (but its a major plus if your time zone is not too far from Europe);

• Competitive salaryadjusted according to your experience and location ( PLN net VAT on a B2B contract for people based in Poland);

• Ameaningful stock option plan to reflect your responsibilities and substantial contribution to the project;

• Paid holidays sick leave 26 days of vacations no matter the type of contract;

• A nice assortment of useful benefits - reimbursements for home office workstations and peripherals training budgets private healthcare subsidies monthly hackdays to flex a different set of creative muscles;

• Remote-first work environment - we have a headquarters in Poland but do live our work lives online including in-house workshops and trainings teambuilding and board games;

• A team of creative friends from the cross section of video games startup development and data analytics;

• An exciting startup project in one of the most vibrant industries in the world in direct contact with people making amazing games;

• A cozy head office in Łódźwith tons of fruits chocolate coffee and board games.

We hire people not resources. We have flexible working hours so you can balance your lifestyle requirements with your work responsibilities. Were trusting you with your own time management relying on your work being fun and exciting to keep you motivated and expecting your experience and professionalism to define your relationship with our clients and the rest of the team.

We especially encourage marginalized groups and people from underserved backgrounds genders and locations to apply.

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2. Youll get an email from us to let you know if youve made it to stage 2.

3. Stage 2 is an interview with Ada or Karolina from our People & Culture team and Ania (Deliver Manager in this team) - just a mutual vibe check and an opportunity to start getting comfortable with each other.

4. Stage 4 is a bigger and more official (but still friendly) chat with representatives of our Pricing and Discounting Team. This part will go a bit more in-depth into your experience and technical skills.

5. Within usually a few days youll get a proper job offer to consider or a little feedback to help you grow and try again in the future. <3

Sounds good so far Go ahead and apply!

Or scroll down for some more context about the team the backstory and a few bits of FAQ.

IndieBI is a sales intelligence platform created to help developers and video game studios know their playground a little bit better. We automatically grab data from all of the most relevant sales platforms we normalize it process it a little and present our users with neat interactive dashboards and advisory tools. This enables the game developers and publishers to build better intuition evaluate their performance and ultimately leads the to make better decisions. Those folks are often pretty busy doing what they really love - making video games - and were here to help them deal with the busywork of actually selling the games after theyre made.

We developed IndieBI at our video games studio in order to track our own game sales on every platform and make smart decisions based on the data we gathered. Over time we quietly shared it with other developers and the response was overwhelmingly positive - so weve now raised funds spun it out into its own company and are scaling up aggresively. IndieBI currently has 45 people working on data product analysis and business development and were steadily making more full time hires to round out the teams.

IndieBI has helped us tremendously and weve since been able to share it with over a hundred other studios funds and publishers - including the likes of:

The insights and advice our small team of analysts were able to supply for our studio and our early beta partners have already more than paid for the development of the platform. Sales optimization and better operations can really make a difference for successful games - to the tune of millions of dollars of additional revenue for some of our current partners. Still we believe IndieBI can truly flourish faster and become a universal ubiquitous tool for the entire industry if its properly independent - which is why weve spun it out of our studio and raised $3M in initial funding from a wide circle of individual industry investors to cover a couple of years of runway.

Weve already achieved pretty amazing things (we can tell you all about them in a meeting) but were ready for so much more. Now with your help well be able to scale and build cool stuff faster and make studios smarter across the entire games industry!

If you have any questions feel free to write to or in your application. Join us now youre gonna love it in here! <3

IndieBI is built by an engineering- and analytics-heavy team of 50 friendly and creative team mostly originates from Blue Brick a software development company Tom one of IndieBIs founders set up in a previous life. The HQ is in Lodz Poland so of course most of the company is Polish but we use English in Teams meetings documents and emails.

Were generally working around the Polish time zone but we are used to working with teammates distributed all the over the world. Our clients are all over the place too - already spanning most of the populated time zones.

And in terms of IndieBIs founders:

Tom (CEO) for the past several years has been running the business side of SUPERHOT. Recently hes spent most of his time getting people excited about data and business intelligence.

Callum (CSO) is most known for his work at Robot Teddy Raw Fury Kepler Interactive and Oculus. Since selling Robot Teddy in 2021 Callum has started a new consultancy under the name Uwu Biz continuing to work with successful developers such as Boneloaf and Bippinbits. He continues to advise Kepler and other studios.

With IndieBI they decided to create a stable fun and impactful company to solve a problem theyve seen affect so many of their industry friends and much was being done on gut-feel and by following others and not enough done with all context and knowledge required. Now theyre hopingIndieBI will be able to change all that - to fundamentally improve the way in which developers and publishers operate in the games industry.

The geese in the photo are not the founders. They are just geese.

1. Whats the level of experience necessary
   
   We expect you to have some experience in the GameDev but most importantly we appreciate a pro-active attitude and the willingness to learn grow and shape your environment.
   W appreciate that every project is different and there are times when youre pushed to learn a bunch of new things in shorter time so the years of experience arent the main factor we focus on.

2. I have my concerns - what makes you special

   Firstly - we think were probably the only team and company able to pull off something of this magnitude. Tom and Callum have spent years working with developers and platforms in the games industry and earning their trust. It would be very difficult to encourage companies to upload their entire sales history platform to your database without having long histories of successful working relationships.

   Secondly - we have a kickass group of individual investors giving us advice and kicking open doors for us. We arent in Silicon Valley and dont want to be but there is definitely something exciting about a startup doing something that no one else is!
   

3. I figured I work better from home and I can work only remotely - how do you feel about it
   
   We fully support you in doing everything to make you feel comfortable and simply happy so we wouldnt expect you to join us in the office now or in the future. Well be delighted to meet you face to face when you feel like it but at the same time we will help you make your home the best workplace possible. :)

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