Senior Backend Engineer – Remote (LATAM)

About the role

Optery helps people retrieve personal data from broker sites. The company is fully remote, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer based in Latin America to work directly with the founders on product and technical direction.

Key responsibilities

• Develop new features for the Django‑based APIs powering the consumer dashboard and B2B platform.
• Improve performance and reliability of Celery and RabbitMQ pipelines.
• Integrate third‑party services such as Stripe and WorkOS SSO.
• Conduct code reviews and collaborate with a small senior backend team.

Required profile

• 6+ years building production web applications.
• 3+ years of experience with Python and Django.
• Strong understanding of data structures, concurrency, SQL and system design.
• Excellent written communication and ability to work async across time zones.

Required skills

• Python
• Django (including DRF or django‑ninja)
• Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis
• PostgreSQL (tuning and query analysis)
• Kubernetes and AWS
• Stripe, identity‑provider APIs (WorkOS SSO)
• HTMX and/or React