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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Backend Engineer - **Company:** SURTICO, INC. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Business Logic, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Database Queries, Linux, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Node.Js, Operational Databases, Open Web Application Security, Software Architecture, Redis, SQLAlchemy, Rust (Programming Language), Google Cloud, Indexer, Backend, Fastapi, Build Management, Production Code, Celery, Front End Software Development, Terraform, Docker, Crud - **Published:** July 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/p82koulfpj ## About the Role * A customer integration or core service you led is in production carrying real load * One concrete security project - auth, secrets, dependencies, or similar - is meaningfully better than when you started, not just tracked * You've taken real load off the infrastructure rotation Tasks 2. Mid-to-senior backend engineering experience. Most likely you have around 3-5+ years of professional experience, but the real bar is ownership, judgment, and shipping quality. Python is our primary stack (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, async) and you'll write it most days. Real depth in another modern backend (Go, Rust, Node.js, Java, …) is a credible path here too, as long as you've shipped something in Python and pick up new stacks fast. 3. Strong SQL - schema design, complex queries, migrations and indexing under real data 4. Backend architecture instincts - you can reason about service boundaries, contracts, queues, state, failure modes, observability - not just CRUD 5. Solid security fundamentals - auth flows, OWASP-class vulnerabilities, secure-by-default habits, secret management 6. Light but real DevOps fundamentals - Docker, Linux, CI/CD 7. A track record of shipping production features fast without leaving a mess 8. You use AI coding agents fluently and critically - they speed you up, but you still review output, understand failure modes, write tests, and ship production-quality code 9. Fluent written and spoken English Bonus * Cloud experience on any major platform (AWS, GCP, Azure, …) - we deploy with Terraform and aren't tied to one cloud * Task queues (Celery/Redis), async pipelines, Postgres operational concerns under load * ML/AI service integrations (Vertex AI, OpenAI, Fal, Replicate, …) * Data engineering experience - pipelines, analytics, internal data tooling * Security background - certifications, CTFs, homelab, prior security-focused work * You genuinely enjoy building with technology beyond assigned tickets - personal projects, automations, experiments, tools for yourself or others, OSS, software-and-hardware tinkering, or past side projects you still care about * You use AI for more than just code - agentic harnesses, automated personal pipelines, custom tooling for your own life * Italian - the team speaks Italian day-to-day, so it's a real plus; English alone is fully sufficient ## Description You will own meaningful backend domains end-to-end and add real throughput where the team currently bottlenecks. The focus here is backend depth - that's the bar - alongside a deliberate, bounded slice of platform and security work. Full-stack engineers who clear the backend bar are equally welcome: we care about what you can carry on the backend side, not about whether you also work on the frontend., * Core product backend services. Design and build the services behind the main app: APIs, data models, business logic, the contracts that define how the product actually behaves to customers. * Customer integrations. Each major customer ends up with their own backbone behind the scenes - export pipelines, transport adapters, naming conventions, automation. You'll own end-to-end pieces of this and help shape it into something more repeatable as the customer base grows. * AI generation pipeline - as a backend architecture problem. Clean service boundaries, robust job lifecycle and state, sharp retry/failure semantics, the right contracts between the product and the generation layer. As we push past tens of thousands of generations a day, this is the part that has to keep getting sharper. This isn't an infra problem dressed up - it's real backend architecture work. * Data engineering as it grows. Production data flows, usage analytics, the internal data platform - a surface starting to take real shape. You'll contribute to (and help define) what it becomes. Platform & security (~20%) * DevOps/SRE backup (~10%) - be the second pair of hands in the infrastructure rotation: CI/CD, deployments, observability, fallback coverage during PTO or incident peaks. A deliberate, bounded slice - enough that we stop being a one-person operation here. * Security (~10%) - own targeted security projects as part of normal work: auth flows, secret management, dependency hygiene, internal tooling. Real pieces of meaningful work, not vague oversight., * "Backend" to you means CRUD over a single service - the scale, integration, and architecture work here will bore you if you don't enjoy that side * You're frontend-first and see backend as the part you tolerate * Writing software is only a way to earn a salary for you, and you have little curiosity for technology outside assigned work ## Related Videos - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [Rest API Antipatterns](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100208-rest-api-antipatterns) - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [Build and Deploy a Fullstack App with Open Source Tooling](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/775-build-and-deploy-a-fullstack-app-with-open-source-tooling) - [Meet Your New BFF: Backend to Frontend without the Duct Tape](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/682-meet-your-new-bff-backend-to-frontend-without-the-duct-tape) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [What’s the Difference Between Frontend and Backend Development?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/240-what-s-the-difference-between-frontend-and-backend-development) - [The 7 Most Popular Backend Frameworks for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/403-the-7-most-popular-backend-frameworks-for-developers)