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# Backend Engineer (Python)

- **Company:** VOODOO SAS
- **Location:** Vanves, France
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** HTML, JavaScript (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Bash Shell, Bootstrap (Software), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Databases, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, JQuery, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Octopus Deploy, Payment Service Provider, Redis, Prometheus, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Trello, Grafana, Backend, Vue.js, Kubernetes, Front End Software Development, Functional Programming, Discord, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-backend-engineer-python-blitz-voodoo-io-8135258

## About the Role

* Excellent back-end programming skills with 6+ years of experience
 * Experience with Python is mandatory
 * A good understanding of the basics of algorithms and databases
Experience writing production-grade systems in Python

 * Experience with microservice architecture and highly distributed systems
 * Write readable, maintainable, and testable code
 * Experience with any cloud infrastructure provider (AWS, GCP, etc.)
 * The willingness to learn and evolve
 * Nice to have :
 * Experience with Payment Services Providers
 * Knowledge of frontend development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and frameworks associated (Bootstrap, JQuery, Vue.js, …)
 * Knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform
 * Startup/scaleup/tech/app environment is a plus

## Description

We are looking for a talented Senior Backend Engineer (Python) who will play a key role in the development of Blitz, our real-money gaming platform.

 * Design and implement services that plug and play with the existing microservice ecosystem
 * Contribute to choice of the technology stack and observe best practices for reliability and availability
 * Explore and solve open-ended problems that span across the back-end and infrastructure, * Programming Languages: Python, bash
 * Databases: AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, AWS Timestream, Redis, PostgreSQL
 * AWS Cloud Services: S3, SNS, SQS, Lambda, EKS
 * CI/CD: Kubernetes, Docker, argocd
 * Monitoring and Alerting: Prometheus, Grafana
 * Productivity: Trello, Slack, Notion, Discord, GDrive


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