Backend Engineer

Senior Python Developer

Experience: 4–8 Years

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Python Developer Engineer to join our team. This role focuses on building and maintaining data-intensive backend systems, handling large-scale datasets, and exposing insights through robust, scalable APIs.

You will work closely with operational and transactional data, design efficient data pipelines, and build backend services that power analytics, reports, and ERP workflows. The ideal candidate is strong in Python, excellent with data and databases, and capable of owning features end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze large datasets to identify trends, inconsistencies, and operational insights.
• Design, build, and maintain backend services and REST APIs using Python and FastAPI.
• Perform advanced data manipulation and aggregation using Pandas, NumPy, and SQL.
• Design and optimize data pipelines for analytics, reporting, and downstream systems.
• Implement automated data quality checks, validations, and monitoring scripts.
• Work closely with product, application, and business teams to translate raw data into clear, actionable outputs.
• Optimize query performance across relational and analytical databases.
• Expose processed data and insights via APIs or dashboards for consumption by web or ERP applications.
• Ensure high standards of code quality, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Write clear documentation for APIs, data flows, and processing logic.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 4–8 years of strong, hands-on experience with Python in production systems.
• Excellent experience with data handling, processing, and large datasets.
• Strong experience building APIs using FastAPI (or similar frameworks).
• Deep expertise in Pandas, NumPy, and SQL.
• Solid experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with analytical or reporting workloads.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, joins, aggregations, and performance tuning.
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently.

Good to Have

• Experience with ClickHouse, Databricks, or Elasticsearch.
• Exposure to data engineering concepts such as ETL/ELT, batch processing, and data pipelines.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster).
• Familiarity with data visualization libraries (Plotly, Matplotlib, Seaborn).
• Experience with AWS services (S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda).
• Prior experience integrating data services into ERP or business applications.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical mindset and attention to detail.
• High ownership and accountability.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Clear communication and documentation skills.
• Proactive, solution-oriented approach.

Have you streamed a program on Disney+, watched your favorite binge-worthy series on Peacock or cheered your favorite team on during the World Cup from one of the 20 top streaming platforms around the globe? If the answer is yes, you’ve already benefitted from Conviva technology, helping the world’s leading streaming publishers deliver exceptional streaming experiences and grow their businesses. 

Conviva is the only global streaming analytics platform for big data that collects, standardizes, and puts trillions of cross-screen, streaming data points in context, in real time. The Conviva platform provides comprehensive, continuous, census-level measurement through real-time, server side sessionization at unprecedented scale. If this sounds important, it is! We measure a global footprint of more than 500 million unique viewers in 180 countries watching 220 billion streams per year across 3 billion applications streaming on devices. With Conviva, customers get a unique level of actionability and scale from continuous streaming measurement insights and benchmarking across every stream, every screen, every second.

What you get to do in this role:

Work on extremely high scale RUST web services or backend systems.

Design and develop solutions for highly scalable web and backend systems.

Proactively identify and solve performance issues.

Maintain a high bar on code quality and unit testing.

What you bring to the role:

5+ years of hands-on software development experience.

At least 2+ years of RUST development experience.

Knowledge of cargo packages for kafka, redis etc.

Strong CS fundamentals, including system design, data structures and algorithms.

Expertise in backend and web services development.

Good analytical and troubleshooting skills.

What will help you stand out:

Experience working with large scale web services and applications.

Exposure to Golang, Scala or Java

Exposure to Big data systems like Kafka, Spark, Hadoop etc.

Underpinning the Conviva platform is a rich history of innovation. More than 60 patents represent award-winning technologies and standards, including first-of-its kind-innovations like time-state analytics and AI-automated data modeling, that surfaces actionable insights. By understanding real-world human experiences and having the ability to act within seconds of observation, our customers can solve business-critical issues and focus on growing their business ahead of the competition. Examples of the brands Conviva has helped fuel streaming growth for include: DAZN, Disney+, HBO, Hulu, NBCUniversal, Paramount+, Peacock, Sky, Sling TV, Univision and Warner Bros Discovery.  

Privately held, Conviva is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with offices and people around the globe. For more information, visit us at www.conviva.com. Join us to help extend our leadership position in big data streaming analytics to new audiences and markets! 

Job Responsibilities:

• Create standard RESTful APIs
• Define API models
• Define Database models
• Communicate with other teams about breaking changes
• Maintain code quality
• Optimizing services for maximum performance

Requirements:  5+ years of work experience

• Advanced understanding of SQL ( NoSQL is a plus)
• Proficient understanding of Node.js
• Willingness to learn new ways of doing things
• Experience exposing functionality through RESTful APIs and GraphQL
• Perform performance tuning and query optimization using native SQL Server tools
• Ensure performance, security, and availability of databases
• Should be familiar with the AWS ecosystem and services
• Experience in deployment of scalable, low-latency, and highly available distributed systems
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development