Nearshore Sector | Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Python) to join our Nearshore delivery team in Porto Portugal (Hybrid/Full-time).

In this role you will work closely with an innovative UK-based fintech startup (founded by former builders from Revolut Square and SumUp) to shape design and architect high-performance compliance and business verification platforms from scratch.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design build and maintain robust scalable customer-facing REST APIs and backend services using Python.

• Own core product architecture end-to-end ensuring high availability performance and stringent security standards.

• Develop high-performance data ingestion web scraping and parsing layers to process real-time data.

• Architect distributed system workflows including asynchronous processing queues pub/sub mechanisms and event-driven architectures.

• Manage and optimize relational database models (PostgreSQL/MySQL) under high load.

• Collaborate in an agile product-minded engineering environment shipping code frequently and driving technical best practices.

Qualifications :

• 5 years of professional backend engineering experience with a proven track record of owning systems end-to-end in production.

• 3 years of strong hands-on experience with Python (or a similar backend language with total willingness to work primarily in Python).

• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems: asynchronous processing message queues pub/sub idempotency retries and eventual consistency.

• Solid experience designing and versioning clean developer-friendly RESTful APIs.

• Advanced knowledge of relational database modeling and query performance (PostgreSQL or MySQL).

• Comfortable working in Cloud environments (AWS GCP or Azure) with CI/CD deployment pipelines.

Nice to Have:

• Experience developing scalable web scrapers and data parsing pipelines.

• Prior experience in regulated/security-sensitive domains (Fintech KYC/AML Fraud Compliance).

• Familiarity with stream processing technologies (Kafka Pub/Sub Dataflow Flink).

• Exposure to low-level languages like Rust Go or C for performance-critical tasks.

Additional Information :

The Devoteam Group works for equal opportunities promoting its employees based on merit and actively fights against all forms of discrimination. We are convinced that diversity contributes to the creativity dynamism and excellence of our organization. All of our vacancies are open to people with disabilities.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time