[Remote] Backend Software Engineer (Python)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. dentsu is a global media agency whose product organization develops technology-driven solutions for content, advertising, and audience engagement. The Backend Software Engineer will design, build, test, and deploy Python-based AI systems and APIs supporting content personalization, audience analytics, creative optimization, data pipelines, and scalable media products.

Responsibilities

• API System Design: Architect, develop, and test production grade Python APIs for media products
• Orchestration: Support data pipelines, background jobs, and distributed systems that interact with AI models
• Collaboration: Work with technical stakeholders to design scalable systems for easy development, deployment, and monitoring of systems. Create implementation plans teams can work against to achieve product goals
• Deployment & Scaling: Design and robust systems for long running processes. Databases, caching, retry logic, fall back behavior, etc. Ensure errors are routed for proper triaging
• Robust Testing: Design/maintain high quality automated tests and manual stress/quality testing frameworks for AI systems
• Ethics & Compliance: Consider data governance and cyber security practices. Ensuring fairness, transparency, and compliance with regulations

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
• Experience (2+ years) designing, maintaining, and testing enterprise grade RestAPIs
• Expert coding skills (6+ years) with at least 2 years of python experience. Deep experience with concurrent systems (asyncio, tornado, celery etc)
• Demonstrated production experience complex long running processes that present and collect data
• Experience (2+ years) with data persistence. Redis, Postgres, NoSQL, MongoDB, etc
• Demonstrated production experience monitoring enterprise systems
• Proficiency with version tracking
• Familiarity with LLMs – their APIs, performance challenges, and how to mitigate those (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc.)
• Ability to architect systems that are maintainable and extendable. Balancing over engineering while preparing for future requests
• Knowledge of containerization, DevOps tools, and CI/CD pipelines

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 15 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick and safe leave
• Paid parental leave
• Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs.
• Flexible working arrangements with in-person collaboration

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