Principal Backend Engineer (Python) - WORK FROM HOME - #34740

As a Principal Backend Engineer, you will drive strategic technical decisions, lead cross-team initiatives, and elevate engineering standards. This is a hands-on coding role that also demands strong architectural vision and execution. You will play a key role in shaping how creators monetize through video and how audiences engage with content and transactions—all while working at the intersection of media, real-time systems, and commerce.

Company Profile:

Our client is a US-based B2B technology company transforming how creator content, video, and commerce converge while building the social infrastructure that connects the world’s sports bettors. Evolving from its roots in sports wagering, the company now powers a full video-commerce and creator-marketplace ecosystem—enabling clips, live interactive streams, shoppable moments, and creator-led communities. Their platform is used by sports betting and DFS operators to deliver social experiences such as content-driven betting feeds, live streaming, and creator-hosted chat, all designed to increase retention, LTV, and handle. With real-time data, dynamic workflows, and seamless commerce triggers at its core, the company is redefining how audiences engage and how creators monetize.

As part of their rapid growth, they are expanding their technical team in the Philippines and are on the lookout for talented, proactive, and highly motivated Principal Backend Engineer to join their dynamic team.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a dynamic, collaborative environment and is passionate about driving projects to success. It's ideal for a detail-oriented, organized individual who thrives on clear communication, problem-solving, and working with diverse teams and senior leaders.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•Define and own the technical strategy for backend systems powering content ingestion, creator tooling, media pipelines, personalization/feeds, and commerce triggers

•Architect and build high-scale, low-latency services in Go and Python that drive the creator-video-commerce stack: ingestion → processing → delivery → transaction

•Lead large, complex projects: evolving micro-services architecture, scaling to millions of events/requests per minute, ensuring reliability, cost-efficiency and observability

•Collaborate with product, design, data/ML, and creator-ops to anticipate the next wave of content-commerce innovation (for example: shoppable video, live drops, creator-marketplaces)

•Own production operations for critical systems: service reliability, incident response, capacity planning, performance optimization

Requirements

Must-have Skills / Qualification:

•10+ years of software engineering with deep backend expertise

•At least 6 years of experience and hands-on mastery Python in production environments

•Proven track record architecting large distributed systems, micro-services, event-driven pipelines, real-time data flows and commerce or media-driven workflows

•Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code, and operational excellence

•Deep familiarity with data stores (SQL + NoSQL/kv), message queues/streaming (Kafka, Pub/Sub, etc), API design (REST/gRPC), and performance/scale trade-offs

•Self-Starter and is able to work without direct communication with other engineers

•Strong strategic mindset: able to make decisions under ambiguity, drive technical vision, and lead across teams

•Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical strategy to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders

Advantageous or Nice-to-Have Skills/Experience:

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

•Go development experience

•Background in personalization, recommendation systems, feed ranking, or analytics/ML infrastructure

•Experience building creator platforms, video commerce, live streaming ecosystems, or social/interactive media products

•Experience building platforms in B2B Software as a Service