Nearshore Sector | Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Python) to join our Nearshore delivery team in Porto, Portugal (Hybrid/Full-time).

In this role, you will work closely with an innovative UK-based fintech startup (founded by former builders from Revolut, Square, and SumUp) to shape, design, and architect high-performance compliance and business verification platforms from scratch.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable customer-facing REST APIs and backend services using Python.

• Own core product architecture end-to-end, ensuring high availability, performance, and stringent security standards.

• Develop high-performance data ingestion, web scraping, and parsing layers to process real-time data.

• Architect distributed system workflows, including asynchronous processing, queues, pub/sub mechanisms, and event-driven architectures.

• Manage and optimize relational database models (PostgreSQL/MySQL) under high load.

• Collaborate in an agile, product-minded engineering environment, shipping code frequently and driving technical best practices.

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience with a proven track record of owning systems end-to-end in production.

• 3+ years of strong hands-on experience with Python (or a similar backend language with total willingness to work primarily in Python).

• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems: asynchronous processing, message queues, pub/sub, idempotency, retries, and eventual consistency.

• Solid experience designing and versioning clean, developer-friendly RESTful APIs.

• Advanced knowledge of relational database modeling and query performance (PostgreSQL or MySQL).

• Comfortable working in Cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with CI/CD deployment pipelines.

Nice to Have:

• Experience developing scalable web scrapers and data parsing pipelines.

• Prior experience in regulated/security-sensitive domains (Fintech, KYC/AML, Fraud, Compliance).

• Familiarity with stream processing technologies (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Flink).

• Exposure to low-level languages like Rust, Go, or C++ for performance-critical tasks.

The Devoteam Group works for equal opportunities, promoting its employees based on merit and actively fights against all forms of discrimination. We are convinced that diversity contributes to the creativity, dynamism and excellence of our organization. All of our vacancies are open to people with disabilities.