Job Description

🚀 Join Our Remote Data Products & Machine Learning Startup! 🚀

At Muttdata, we build innovative Data Products and Machine Learning solutions that help companies solve complex business challenges. As a fast-growing, remote-first startup, we’re passionate about technology, collaboration, and continuous learning.

We are looking for an experienced, hands-on, and ownership-driven Backend Engineer (Advanced) to join our team 🐶🚀. In this role you will design, build, and operate production-grade backend services and REST APIs with Python and FastAPI on Microsoft Azure, including a communications dispatch service that integrates messaging queues and external APIs such as Braze.

You will work closely with development, data, and IT/DevOps teams, integrating backend services with Azure components, relational databases, third-party APIs, and data processes running on platforms like Databricks. Reliability, observability, and clean, maintainable code are at the core of this role.

🚀 What We Do

🌟 Our Partnerships

🌟 Our Values

Responsibilities 🤓

• Design, develop, and evolve backend services and REST APIs with Python and FastAPI, applying best practices in architecture, security, and maintainability.
• Build and operate the communications dispatch service, integrating message queues and external APIs, with idempotency, retries, rate limiting, and error handling mechanisms.
• Integrate and orchestrate platform components, including Azure services, databases, third-party APIs, and data processes running on platforms such as Databricks.
• Design and maintain persistence solutions in Azure SQL, including data modeling, migrations, data integrity, and query optimization.
• Ensure backend reliability and observability in production by implementing monitoring, tracing, automated testing, and failure recovery mechanisms.
• Collaborate with development, data, and IT/DevOps teams on technical decisions, component integration, CI/CD pipelines, and deployments across environments, maintaining clear technical documentation.

Required Skills 🚀

Nice to Have 😉

• Experience with AI-assisted software development using tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor, or Spec-Driven Development (SDD) practices, with sound judgment to validate the quality, security, and maintainability of generated code.
• Experience integrating and orchestrating data processes from backend services, especially with Azure Databricks or other processing platforms.
• Experience with containerized infrastructure in the cloud, including Kubernetes/AKS or Azure Container Registry.
• Familiarity with Martech, engagement, or digital experimentation platforms, including push, email, in-app communications integrations, or A/B testing.

🎁 Perks