Lead Backend Engineer, Partnerize

• Extensive software engineering experience using Python within production environments
• Experience designing and developing scalable backend or distributed systems
• Strong understanding of software architecture, OO principles, and integration patterns
• Experience leading technical initiatives or projects across cross-functional engineering teams
• Experience working with distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and messaging/event-driven architectures
• Strong knowledge of Agile and Lean delivery approaches and modern engineering practices, including clean code, TDD, refactoring, Domain-Driven Design, CI/CD, and observability
• Experience designing, developing, and consuming REST APIs and service-oriented architectures
• Experience working with technologies such as Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, Celery, MySQL/Postgres, or similar backend technologies
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• The ability to communicate in a concise and focused way, listen actively, and approach problem-solving collaboratively

Desirable

• A Lead Python Engineer will play a key role in designing, building, and evolving scalable backend systems across Partnerize’s platform
• This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on delivering clean, maintainable, and reliable solutions within a modern distributed systems environment
• The successful candidate will act as a senior technical contributor and trusted problem solver within their domain, helping shape architecture, drive engineering best practices, and lead technical initiatives across teams
• While this is not a people management role, the position requires strong ownership, collaboration, and the ability to lead projects and technical direction across cross-functional teams
• The role will contribute actively to team and cross-team ceremonies, support platform evolution, and help improve system scalability, performance, and maintainability across the engineering organisation
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services primarily using Python
• Lead technical delivery across key engineering and platform initiatives
• Contribute to architectural decisions and the evolution of distributed systems across the platform
• Build clean, testable, maintainable, and observable software solutions
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Data teams to deliver high-quality solutions
• Drive engineering best practices across clean code, testing, CI/CD, refactoring, and maintainability
• Work within asynchronous and event-driven architectures using modern backend technologies
• Mentor and support engineers through technical guidance and collaboration
• Actively contribute to team and cross-team ceremonies, technical discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Support troubleshooting and problem-solving across systems and teams where required