Senior Backend Engineer

Executive Monroe Consulting Group is recruiting on behalf of a #1 global market leader in digital shopper marketing. Our client is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer. This job offers a Hybrid arrangement (3x onsite, 2x WFH in a week) located in Makati and on a night shift.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our steadily growing engineering team. This role involves designing secure, scalable APIs and data services that power our myBehaviorally SaaS platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Python and SQL, Azure cloud services, and building reliable integrations (HubSpot, Outlook/SMTP, OpenAI), with a passion for partnering cross-functionally to bring the product vision to life.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Own the backend development of our next-generation B2B SaaS product: Django REST APIs consumed by a React SPA through App Gateway + WAF.

• Implement secure authentication/authorization (Azure AD SSO, optional Okta), role-based access, and multi-tenant patterns

• Build and operate resilient async pipelines (Celery/Redis) for file processing and job orchestration; expose job status to the UI

• Integrate external systems: HubSpot (REST/webhooks), Outlook/SMTP notifications, and OpenAI endpoints for workflow automation

• Design and maintain schemas in Azure SQL; manage artifacts/results in Azure Blob Storage with proper retention and lineage.

• Ensure the performance, scalability, and reliability of internal-facing and external-facing services; profile and optimize Python code and SQL.

• Instrument observability (structured logs, metrics, tracing via App Insights/Azure Monitor/OpenTelemetry); create runbooks and SLAs/SLOs.

• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code; contribute to code reviews and engineering standards.

• Keep up to date with backend, security, and Azure best practices; participate in threat modeling and periodic hardening.

Key Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, or related field.

• At least 5 years of experience building production backend systems with Python (Django/DRF or FastAPI) and SQL

• Track record designing and operating RESTful APIs and asynchronous workers (Celery/Redis), including idempotency, retries, and monitoring.

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (App Service, App Gateway + WAF, Azure AD/OIDC, Key Vault, Azure SQL, Blob Storage, Monitor/App Insights).

• Proven experience integrating third-party platforms (e.g., HubSpot APIs, webhooks; SMTP/Outlook; OpenAI APIs).

• Strong data modeling and query-tuning skills; comfortable with schema migrations and performance diagnostics.

• Proficient with testing and CI/CD (pytest, Git/GitHub, GitHub Actions); code reviews and documentation.

• Solid understanding of security best practices (OWASP, secrets management, RBAC, encryption at rest/in transit) and awareness of GDPR.

• Excellent problem-solving skills, resourceful, proactive, and willing to take ownership.

• Startup experience is a major plus.

• Proven experience working with React and Typescript a definite plus