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Senior Backend Engineer
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer o join the AgInsights Platform team.
The platform enables data-driven decision-making in agriculture by integrating agronomic and machine learning models into scalable cloud-native services.
You will play a key role in building and scaling the AgInsights Platform, developing backend services, integrating agronomic models, and improving the tooling and infrastructure that enable data-driven decision-making in agriculture. This is a hands-on engineering role with real ownership, where you will work across platform and model boundaries to deliver reliable, production-ready systems in a largely greenfield environment.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain backend services and APIs (e.g., using FastAPI)
Integrate and operationalise agronomic and data-driven models
Design and implement data workflows (e.g., with Apache Airflow)
Develop and improve internal tooling, SDKs, and developer experience
Deploy and operate services in cloud-native environments (Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services)
Contribute to CI/CD and GitOps practices (e.g., CircleCI, Argo CD)
Improve observability, monitoring, and system reliability
Collaborate closely with data scientists, model developers, and platform engineers
Requirements
4+ years of commercial experience with Python
3+ years of experience with FastAPI
Experience with Redis and Celery
3+ years of experience with Pandas
Experience with Apache Airflow and data orchestration
Solid experience with AWS cloud services
Upper-Intermediate English or higher
Nice to Have
Experience with machine learning platforms or MLOps practices
Experience with data engineering and large-scale data processing
Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD
Experience in AgTech, agriculture, geospatial, or environmental data domains