Senior Backend Developer, Python
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Senior Backend Developer at CI&T designing and building scalable backend services for cloud-based platforms. Focused on APIs, distributed systems, and enterprise integrations with a modern architecture.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build backend services that support complex business workflows and integrations.
- Develop resilient systems capable of handling external system failures through asynchronous processing, retries, and fault-tolerant patterns.
- Ensure services meet enterprise-grade standards for performance, reliability, security, and observability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including frontend developers, product managers, and platform engineers.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and mentor other developers to raise engineering standards.
- Build and maintain REST APIs exposed through API Gateway.
- Develop containerized services using Docker.
- Implement asynchronous workflows, background processing, and event-driven patterns.
- Develop integrations with external enterprise systems such as identity providers, messaging systems, and SaaS platforms.
- Work with PostgreSQL-based databases, including Supabase.
- Implement durable workflows and long-running processes using Temporal.
- Integrate AI-powered capabilities through AWS Bedrock.
- Implement monitoring and observability using OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit, and Grafana.
- Collaborate with infrastructure teams using Terraform and GitHub Actions to support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
Requirements:
- Hands-on experience with Python (production backend development)
- REST API development
- Docker and containerized applications
- API Gateway
- PostgreSQL
- Event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing
- Message queues or background processing systems
- Workflow orchestration tools such as Temporal
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions
- Observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, or similar
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems design
- Experience implementing resilience patterns such as retries, idempotency, and failure recovery
- Experience with authentication and authorization concepts (OAuth, OIDC, SSO, RBAC)
- Ability to troubleshoot and support production systems
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Advanced English (Nice to Have: Experience with Supabase or PostgreSQL platforms, integrating AI or LLM-based capabilities, building enterprise SaaS platforms, supporting hybrid or on-prem deployments, mentoring engineers or acting as a technical lead)
Benefits:
- Health and dental insurance
- Meal and food allowance
- Childcare assistance
- Extended paternity leave
- Partnership with gyms and health and wellness professionals via Wellhub (Gympass) TotalPass;
- Profit Sharing and Results Participation (PLR);
- Life insurance
- Continuous learning platform (CI&T University);
- Discount club
- Free online platform dedicated to physical, mental, and overall well-being
- Pregnancy and responsible parenting course
- Partnerships with online learning platforms
- Language learning platform
- And many more!




















