Backend Engineer – Django, AI & Algorithmic Systems
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Backend Django Engineer building AI-driven trucking systems for Spotter AI, a US-based trucking startup. Designing APIs, data models, and algorithmic services for a distributed remote team.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement backend services and APIs using Python, Django, and DRF or similar
- Model and evolve domain data using clean database schemas and relationships
- Implement algorithmic and AI logic such as scoring, ranking, routing, and decision rules
- Write production-ready backend code
- Optimize query efficiency, indexing, caching, and response performance
- Translate product ideas into technical designs and endpoints
- Help define engineering patterns, conventions, and shipping processes
- Own core backend features end-to-end in collaboration with a distributed team
Requirements:
- Strong experience building backend applications with Python + Django
- Solid understanding of relational data modeling and SQL
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Comfortable designing and building RESTful APIs
- Experience with non-trivial business logic or algorithms
- Understanding of query behavior, performance optimization, indexing, and caching
- Comfortable with ambiguity, moving fast, and iterating based on real-world feedback
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment and communicate clearly
- Experience in startups, side projects, or hackathons (bonus)
- Background in algorithms, optimization, or data-heavy systems (bonus)
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform in production (bonus)
- Familiarity with Redis and PostgreSQL at scale (bonus)
- Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and/or serverless on GCP (bonus)
Benefits:
- $100 bonus after successfully completing the assessment

















