PeakData

Senior Backend Engineer – Cloud & Data Infrastructure

PeakData

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Wrocław • 🇵🇱 Poland

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSDockerFlaskGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesNoSQLPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

  • Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs that support platform data flow and automation
  • Build resilient infrastructure components to handle large-scale data and AI-driven workloads
  • Support data ingestion, transformation, and LLM integration with performant back-end systems
  • Contribute to the modularization and standardization of internal backend tooling
  • Collaborate with data engineers to bridge platform and data systems effectively
  • Own infrastructure components through IaC (e.g., CDK, Terraform)
  • Drive observability (logging, tracing, alerting) for backend and data systems
  • Participate in performance tuning, scalability planning, and cost optimization
  • Ensure reliability and resilience across critical services and pipelines
  • Lead by example in delivering high-quality code and stable services
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Data Science, DevOps, and Product Engineering
  • Mentor peers and support a culture of technical excellence

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure-focused engineering roles
  • Strong Python backend development skills (FastAPI, Flask, asyncio)
  • Deep experience with AWS (and familiarity with GCP)
  • Comfortable with SQL and working knowledge of NoSQL datastores
  • Solid understanding of distributed system design and asynchronous processing
  • Experience working with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., CDK, Terraform)
  • Experience with containerized deployment (Docker, ECS, or K8s)
Benefits
  • Opportunity to shape the technical foundation of our platform infrastructure
  • Work that contributes to faster, more effective healthcare outcomes
  • A collaborative, agile environment that values autonomy
  • Exposure to both AWS and GCP in real-world deployments
  • Hands-on work with LLMs and cutting-edge AI applications
  • Competitive compensation and real responsibility from day one

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
PythonFastAPIFlaskasyncioAWSGCPSQLNoSQLinfrastructure-as-codeDocker
Soft skills
collaborationmentoringleadershiptechnical excellence