О компании
Akazuki Works designs and builds modern digital products, including scalable web platforms, backend systems, automation tools, and AI-powered applications.
Задачи
•Own the design, development, and operation of Python backend services and APIs
•Turn product requirements into technical designs, plans, and trade-off decisions
•Lead architecture discussions and help define engineering standards and best practices
•Design database schemas and optimize PostgreSQL queries and indexes for growing datasets
•Build and scale background jobs, data pipelines, and automation workflows using Celery, message brokers, and asyncio
•Integrate third-party services, payment providers, external APIs, and LLM-based features
•Maintain production system performance, security, and observability, and lead root-cause analysis
•Review code and mentor colleagues through constructive feedback
•Document systems and decisions to share knowledge across the team
Требования
•5+ Years of professional experience building and running production systems in Python
•Hands-on expertise with Django or FastAPI
•Strong PostgreSQL and SQL skills, including query optimization, indexing, and schema design at scale
•Experience designing and maintaining REST APIs used by real products
•Experience with asynchronous processing using asyncio, Celery, or message queues
•Production experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS or GCP
•Strong testing discipline with pytest, type checking, and linting
•Track record of owning services end to end, from design through deployment, monitoring, and incident handling
•Sound system design skills and judgment to choose simple solutions over clever ones
•Clear written and spoken English
•Self-directed working style
Nice to have: Flask, LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, vector databases, Redis, caching strategies, high-throughput systems, web application security (OWASP, auth, secrets management), large datasets, data processing pipelines, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, startup or small product team experience, mentoring developers or acting as technical lead on a project.
Условия
•$8,900–$11,000 USD per month, based on experience
•Long-term cooperation with stable, reliable payments
•Flexible hours
•Real ownership and direct influence on architecture, tooling, and technical direction
•Varied projects, including AI and automation work
•Small, senior team with no unnecessary bureaucracy
•Hiring process takes 2–3 weeks and includes an application review, a 30-minute intro call, a 60-minute technical interview covering Python, system design, and real problems solved, and a final conversation with the team, including contract details
