Python Backend Engineer

San Ramon, CA, US • Posted 3 hours ago • Updated 3 hours ago

Contract W2

No Travel Required

On-site

$60 - $70/hr

Fitment

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Job Details

Skills

Amazon DynamoDB
Python
Payment Card Industry

Summary

Project Description

This team owns core backend systems powering a global ecommerce platform with a strategic emphasis on personalization, checkout, and customer experience.

The platform currently supports market‑level personalization and sales tracking, with a clear roadmap toward true user‑level personalization. A key initiative is enabling customer‑level sales visibility, driven by a growing loyalty program and deeper understanding of individual customer behavior.

Strategically, the organization is evolving from a traditional “browse and buy” approach to owning the entire browse experience, allowing for intelligent, personalized journeys across global markets.

As a Tech Lead / Staff Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping backend architecture, setting engineering standards, and ensuring the scalability, reliability, and quality of systems that directly impact revenue and customer experience worldwide.

Duties/Day to Day Overview

This is a senior, hands‑on technical leadership role.

You will lead by example through deep coding involvement, architectural ownership, and stewardship of engineering quality across backend systems. The team will rely on you for technical direction, decision‑making, and setting the bar for excellence.

Duties / Day‑to‑Day Responsibilities

Serve as a technical leader and owner of backend architecture across ecommerce and personalization systems
Design, build, and evolve scalable backend services and APIs
Make and drive architectural decisions with a long‑term scalability and reliability mindset
Remain deeply hands‑on with production code
Own code quality standards and best practices
Perform, gate, and guide code reviews across the team
Partner closely with Product, Frontend, and Business stakeholders to translate business goals into technical solutions
Mentor engineers through technical guidance and design reviews (without formal people management)
Lead complex initiatives involving performance optimization, reliability, and system scalability
Participate in production deployments, monitoring, and incident resolution
Navigate ambiguity and provide technical clarity in fast‑moving environments

Top Requirements

(Must haves)

Top Requirements (Must‑Haves)

Strong backend engineering expertise in Python
Proven experience designing and owning backend systems at scale
Deep understanding of:

System design and architecture
Design patterns
Scalability, reliability, and performance optimization

Passion for building high‑impact ecommerce platforms

Experience with DynamoDB (nice to have)

Deep ecommerce domain experience, especially on the buy side:

Cart
Checkout
Payments

Experience integrating payment providers (e.g., Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay)
Familiarity with PCI, security, and compliance considerations
Exposure to global commerce and multi‑region systems

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Dice Id: 91134724
Position Id: 8931042
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