Senior Backend Engineer - Python
Your mission
You'll be responsible for the technical backbone of our product—shaping architecture decisions, evolving production systems, and setting the engineering standard as our team grows:
- Define and evolve our backend architecture—making strategic decisions on service boundaries, data flows, and scaling patterns.
- Design and build high-throughput content ingestion and transformation pipelines that reliably process thousands of articles daily.
- Own the full lifecycle of our core API services (FastAPI)—from design through deployment to operational excellence.
- Establish backend engineering standards: code quality, testing strategies, documentation practices, and review processes.
- Drive infrastructure decisions—evaluate trade-offs between cloud services, optimize costs, and ensure our systems are observable and resilient.
- Mentor and guide future engineering hires as the team scales.
Your profile
Technical Expertise:
- 5+ years of professional Python development, with significant experience designing and operating production backend systems
- Deep knowledge of async frameworks (FastAPI or equivalent) and RESTful API design
- Strong data modeling skills—MongoDB or other document/NoSQL databases at scale
- Solid understanding of distributed systems patterns: queues, event-driven architectures, idempotency, graceful degradation
AI & Platform:
- Hands-on experience integrating and orchestrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar) in production
- Familiarity with LangSmith, LangChain, or comparable orchestration/observability tooling
- Ability to reason about prompt engineering trade-offs, token economics, and model selection
- Up to date and clear on pros and cons of agent-assisted software developement
DevOps & Infrastructure:
- Production AWS experience (ECS, Lambda, S3, SQS, or similar services)
- Docker, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), infrastructure-as-code
- Hands-on with monitoring, logging, and alerting—you've been on-call and know what matters when things break
How You Work:
- You think in systems, not just features—anticipating failure modes and scaling bottlenecks before they hit
- You make pragmatic trade-offs between moving fast and building for durability
- You communicate technical decisions clearly, both in writing and in conversation
- You've operated in environments where you had to define process, not just follow it
- You love to deploy as often as you can and to test in production
How we define success:
- You've established architectural patterns and engineering practices that the team builds on confidently.
- The systems you own run reliably in production with clear observability—issues are caught before users notice.
- Your technical judgment earns trust across the team, and your decisions hold up as we scale.
- Editors and internal users experience a noticeably more stable, faster product.
Why us?
- Shape the technical foundation of a product used by major German publishers.
- Be the senior engineering voice in a small, high-impact team with direct influence on product and architecture.
- Support trustworthy journalism in the age of AI.
- Berlin-based hybrid setup with genuine home office flexibility.
- Early-stage equity opportunity—your work directly drives company value.
About us
BeatSquares transforms large content archives into new formats to reach audiences. A single story can now reach everyone. Our mission is to bring trusted journalistic information and factual content exactly where people need it—through a scalable, modern platform.
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