# Senior Backend Engineer II, Marketplace

**Company:** [LeafLink](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/leaflink)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $185k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, Postgres, REST APIs, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Event-Driven Architecture
**Posted:** 2026-06-04

> Senior backend engineer building and scaling commerce and traceability platform services using Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Requires 5+ years of production backend experience and strong distributed systems skills.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Be Doing

- Design and build backend services supporting commerce workflows and integrations.
- Develop and maintain production-grade services using Python, Django, and Django REST Framework.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design scalable system solutions.
- Contribute to architectural discussions and evolve service-oriented systems and event-driven architectures using technologies such as SNS, SQS, or event buses.
- Write maintainable, secure, and well-tested backend code.
- Improve system reliability, performance, observability, and operational resilience.
- Build and maintain APIs used by internal services, external partners, and third-party integrations.
- Work with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling.
- Refactor and modernize legacy systems as the platform evolves.
- Deploy and operate services in AWS-based environments using modern cloud infrastructure patterns.
- Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines to support safe, automated, and efficient testing and deployments.
- Troubleshoot production issues, participate in root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.
- Participate in code reviews and advocate for strong engineering standards, testing practices, and operational excellence.

## What You’ll Bring to the Team

- 5+ years of experience working as a backend engineer in a production environment.
- Strong experience building backend services using Python and Django.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining REST APIs, preferably with Django REST Framework.
- Experience working with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, and large datasets.
- Strong understanding of backend application architecture, data modeling, and service design.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and production troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
- Familiarity with asynchronous processing, background jobs, queues, or event-based workflows.
- Familiarity with containerized environments such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience deploying and operating services in AWS or similar cloud environments.
- Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational best practices.
- Experience in regulated industries, such as financial services or cannabis, is a plus.

## Perks & Benefits

- Flexible PTO
- Stock option plan
- 5 Days of Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
- Competitive compensation and 401k match
- Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision)
- Commuter Benefits through Flexible Spending Account

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