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# Senior Backend Engineer (LATAM)

- **Company:** OPTERY, INC.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $65,000.0 - $95,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Structures, Django Web Framework, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, SQL Databases, Web Applications, ReactJS, Concurrency, Backend, Stripe, Kubernetes, Celery, Front End Software Development, Api Management
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_2524b14b7b639e2b6b568a427ced8f5b

## About the Role

* 6+ years building production web applications
 * 3+ years with Python and Django
 * Working knowledge of CS fundamentals: data structures, concurrency, SQL, system design
 * Strong written communication; comfortable working async across time zones
 * Self-direction and follow-through, * DRF and/or django-ninja
 * Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis in production
 * Postgres tuning and query analysis
 * Kubernetes and AWS
 * Stripe, identity providers, or other third-party API integrations
 * HTMX, React, or both
 * Background in consumer privacy or adjacent industries

## Description

Optery helps people get their personal data off broker sites. We're a fully remote team, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer who'll work directly with the founders on product and technical direction., Optery helps people get their personal data off broker sites. We're a fully remote team, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer who'll work directly with the founders on product and technical direction.

This position is open to candidates based in Latin America.

The role is backend-focused: Python and Django, with light frontend work when it makes sense (HTMX, the occasional React component). You own features start to finish, including the unglamorous part where you make sure the thing works in production a week after it ships.