Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Emumba is a global engineering and consulting company with expertise in software development and AWS cloud practices. The company is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to build robust, scalable, and secure distributed systems and cloud-native applications using Python. The role focuses on event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, data pipelines, serverless applications, RESTful APIs, and cloud security.
Responsibilities
- Build backend logic for event-driven systems using message queues and pub/sub services, with strong data processing and file-handling logic
- Manage concurrent tasks efficiently in distributed environments using asynchronous programming techniques
- Design and implement data processing pipelines across cloud storage, compute, and database services
- Optimize applications for performance and scalability through caching, async calls, and latency reduction
- Design and develop serverless applications and RESTful APIs using Flask or FastAPI
- Follow cloud security best practices (IAM, encryption, network isolation), and implement authentication mechanisms (OAuth, JWT, or managed identity services)
Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on Python backend development experience, with solid exposure to cloud-native or serverless solutions (AWS preferred)
- Proven experience with distributed systems concepts — event-driven architecture, message queues, and scalable data pipelines
- Hands-on experience with asynchronous and concurrent programming
- Strong testing and debugging skills across distributed architectures
- Builder mindset: thrives on writing, debugging, and improving production code
- Collaborative, humble, and open to feedback
- Strong communicator who explains design decisions clearly
- Influences through contribution, not hierarchy
- Exposure to GenAI tooling or LLM-based systems, particularly RAG or agentic RAG architectures, is a plus
- Experience integrating LLM APIs into backend services or workflows
- Familiarity with vector databases and embedding-based search
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement
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