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# Senior Backend Engineer

- **Company:** KIZEN LLC
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $253,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon S3, Django Web Framework, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Memcached, Open Source Technology, Redis, Software Deployment, Large Language Models, Backend, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Front End Software Development, Network Server
- **Published:** July 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=dd5867588751fc19

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree or greater required in Computer Science (preferred), Information Technology, or related field (Physics, mathematics, engineering)
 * Ability to facilitate a task's entire lifecycle, going from product requirements to deployment
 * 5 - 7+ years of professional development experience (Python preferred)
 * Experience shipping LLM-enabled features in production
 * Exceptional collaboration, organizational, time management, and communication skills
 * Ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt to a quickly changing environment
 * Driven and self-motivated with a track record of finding and solving difficult problems
 * An eye for opportunity / good at creative optimization problems, * Experience with Django
 * Experience with LangGraph, LiteLLM, or similar
 * Working knowledge of at least one evaluation system
 * Understanding of Agentic best practices
 * Experience implementing MCP Servers/Clients
 * Experience with Postgres, Redis, S3, Memcache
 * Experience deploying applications with Kubernetes
 * Experience implementing RAG
 * You've made or contributed to open-source projects and have your fair share of side projects

## Description

* Ability to iteratively improve a solution that uses nondeterministic components by using experimental methods
 * Work with Engineering leaders to ensure we're building reliable, maintainable software
 * Partner with the product team to design feasible features, create consumable tickets, and assess implementation
 * Work with the Frontend Engineering Team Lead(s) to ensure the user-facing experience is polished and uses backend features as intended
 * Craft flexible, reliable, and scalable code
 * Write tests and evals to ensure stability as the codebase evolves over time
 * Meet technical issues head on: troubleshooting and quickly creating resolution plans to rapidly address acute customer impact, while also planning for long-term success


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