Senior Python Engineer, ManyChat

• This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building scalable backend architecture, thinking through distributed-system tradeoffs, and owning work from technical design through production deployment. You care about reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability, but you also stay close to the product and understand how engineering decisions affect customers and business outcomes
• If you thrive in fast-moving product environments, enjoy solving ambiguous problems, and want to shape how Python services evolve at Manychat, this role is for you
• 5+ years of commercial backend engineering experience, with strong hands-on Python expertise
• Experience building and maintaining high-load production systems
• Strong knowledge of async programming, concurrency, and modern Python frameworks such as FastAPI
• Experience designing, building, and integrating REST APIs
• Solid knowledge of relational databases and SQL, preferably PostgreSQL
• Strong testing practices, including unit and integration testing
• Experience with CI/CD, production deployments, monitoring, and Docker or similar tooling
• Good understanding of system design, reliability, scalability, and maintainability
• Strong ownership, autonomy, and ability to work through ambiguity
• Product mindset and experience collaborating with cross-functional teams

Desirable

• We’re hiring a Senior Python Engineer to help build and scale backend systems that power core Manychat product experiences
• You’ll work on production-grade Python services used by millions of customers worldwide. Depending on the product area, your work may involve APIs, integrations, automation workflows, analytics, AI-powered experiences, platform capabilities, or systems that help teams move faster and deliver more reliably
• Design, build, and scale Python backend services that power high-impact product experiences used by millions of customers
• Work on complex backend challenges across APIs, integrations, automation workflows, data systems, AI-powered features, and platform capabilities
• Build async services that handle high load, latency-sensitive workflows, and real-world production traffic
• Design reliable service contracts and integrations between systems, including internal services and external platforms
• Solve architecture problems around scalability, data consistency, caching, retries, idempotency, observability, and safe failure handling
• Own features end to end, from technical discovery and system design to implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Improve production reliability through monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and performance optimization
• Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, reliability, maintainability, and long-term platform evolution
• Contribute to CI/CD, testing strategy, rollout practices, and engineering standards for Python services
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Platform, Data, AI, SRE, and other engineering teams to turn ambiguous problems into shipped systems
• Help shape how Python backend engineering evolves at Manychat as we scale the product and platform