#10 Backend Platform Engineer Senior (Python/FastAPI)

🚀 Join Our Remote Data Products & Machine Learning Startup! 🚀 At Muttdata, we build innovative Data Products and Machine Learning solutions that help companies solve complex business challenges. As a fast-growing, remote-first startup, we're passionate about technology, collaboration, and continuous learning. We are looking for a Backend Platform Engineer to join our team and work within the AI Platform team of a large-scale organization🐶🚀 This team maintains the backend platform behind the organization's AI models and agents, including the services that integrate with agentic AI, observability, and MCP servers. Hybrid work model. 🚀 What We Do - Leveraging our expertise, we build modern Machine Learning systems for demand planning and budget forecasting. - Developing scalable data infrastructures, we enhance high-level decision-making, tailored to each client. - Offering comprehensive Data Engineering and custom AI solutions, we optimize cloud-based systems. - Using Generative AI, we help e-commerce platforms and retailers create higher-quality ads, faster. - Building deep learning models, we enhance visual recognition and automation for various industries, improving product categorization, quality control, and information retrieval. - Developing recommendation models, we personalize user experiences in e-commerce, streaming, and digital platforms, driving engagement and conversions. 🌟 Our Partnerships - Amazon Web Services - Astronomer - Databricks 🌟 Our Values - 📊 We are Data Nerds - 🤗 We are Open Team Players - 🚀 We Take Ownership - 🌟 We Have a Positive Mindset 🔍 Curious about what we’re up to? Check out our case studies and dive into our blog post to learn more about our culture and the exciting projects we’re working on! 🚀 Responsibilities 🤓 - Design and develop backend services with FastAPI. - Integrate the platform with agentic AI services. - Maintain the platform for agentic models, including its observability. - Develop and manage MCP servers throughout their entire lifecycle. - Design and operate relational and non-relational databases. - Apply good authentication and security practices. - Collaborate across the full stack (frontend, backend, and AI). Required Skills 💻 - 5+ years of experience with Python and strong command of its best practices. - Advanced knowledge of FastAPI or similar frameworks. - Experience with relational and non-relational databases. - Knowledge of platforms for agentic models and of observability. - Knowledge of MCP development and lifecycle. - Familiarity with LangChain and LangGraph. - Experience integrating agentic AI services. - Basic knowledge of cloud. - Experience working in platform teams. - Good authentication and security practices. - Curiosity, a drive to stay up to date, and willingness to work across the full stack. - Stack: Python, FastAPI, LangChain, LangGraph, MCP, relational and non-relational databases, Cloud. Nice to have 💻 - React and TypeScript. 🎁 Perks - 🌍 Remote-first culture – work from anywhere! - 🚀 In-Company English Lessons. - 💪 Wellhub or sports club stipend to stay active - 🚀 AWS, DBT, Google Cloud, Azure & Databricks certifications fully covered - 🍕 Food credits via Pedidos Ya – because great work deserves great food. - 🎂 Birthday off + an extra vacation week (Mutt Week! 🏖️) - 🤝 Referral bonuses – help us grow the team & get rewarded! - ✈️🏝️ Annual Mutters' Trip – an unforgettable getaway with the team! - 👶 Monthly Childcare Reimbursement – Because supporting families matters too