FlyFlat

Backend Engineer

• Lead development of features using Django and FastAPI
• Architect and implement scalable web applications
• Establish technical standards for our Python codebase, including standards for AI-assisted contributions
• Optimize our cloud infrastructure (Railway, with selective AWS usage)
• Build and maintain the AI tooling, prompts, and skills the engineering team relies on day-to-day, and treat that work as a real engineering deliverable rather than a side project
• Help define the company-wide policies, guardrails, and enablement that let teams across Ascend use AI tools effectively without creating IP, security, or data-handling risk
• Mentor developers, conduct thorough code reviews, and help raise the bar for how we evaluate AI-assisted work
• Collaborate with product managers and designers
• Implement testing and evaluation strategies, including for workflows that involve AI in the loop
• Evaluate new technologies, AI and otherwise, to enhance our tech stack

Senior Python Backend Developer – Django, FastAPI