About the Position

Senior Backend Engineer (Python/Go)

MWDN is a global IT outstaffing company with 23+ years of experience that connects exceptional tech talent with leading companies across Israel, the USA, Great Britain, and Western Europe. We offer opportunities to work on international products in a stable and professional environment.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency backend services for ad delivery and analytics
Own queue-driven workloads (Celery/Redis/DragonflyDB): throughput, retries, back-pressure, idempotency
Optimize performance end-to-end: CPU/memory, networking, asyncio/concurrency, caching, schema/indexing
Productionize on cloud (EC2, S3, RDS, Clickhouse, ALB/NLB, IAM, Elasticsearch)
Implement robust observability: metrics, tracing, structured logs, SLOs/alerts
Collaborate with product/analytics to ship features fast; run load tests and capacity plans for peak QPS
Harden systems for resiliency, cost, and security (least-privilege IAM, secrets, threat modeling)

Requirements

5+ years building production backend systems in Python (Go is optional)
Strong AWS experience running scalable, reliable services
Proven track record optimizing servers for high load/low latency
Deep hands-on with Celery (or similar queues), task orchestration, and distributed systems fundamentals
Comfortable with Bash, Linux networking, and performance debugging (perf, eBPF, flame graphs)
Solid JavaScript/Web fundamentals (HTTP, TLS, CORS, cookies, caching, CDNs)
SQL/NoSQL experience; data modeling for large-scale reads/writes
Great communication, team player, fast learner, proactive, and willing to work hard to hit goals
At least an upper-intermediate level of English

Nice to Have

RTB/OpenRTB, VAST/VMAP, header bidding, DSP/SSP integrations
Redis/DragonflyDB tuning, Kafka/Kinesis, ClickHouse/Redshift, Airflow
Docker/K8s, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD; zero-downtime deploys & canary/blue-green
Security/compliance in ad systems (PII, consent/TCF)
Elasticsearch/Kibana experience

We Offer

People-first management with minimal bureaucracy
A friendly company culture, proven by employees who choose to return
Flexible working hours
29 days of PTO (18 working days per year, plus all national holidays)
9 paid recovery days
Full financial and legal support for independent contractors
Free English classes, with native speakers or Ukrainian teachers
Dedicated HR support

About the Company

Why does MWDN rock?

Here’s what you can expect when you join MWDN:

Security: We carefully vet our clients to minimize risks and ensure reliability and timely payments-no fraud or unpleasant surprises.
Career support: If a project isn’t the right fit, we support you and actively help find new opportunities that match your skills and career goals.
Legal assistance: We provide guidance on legal matters, including opening and managing your independent contractor or sole proprietorship status, taxes, and related processes.
Professional development: We offer English courses and professional growth opportunities, as well as team-building events.

Curious to learn more? See what our employees say about working with us on DOU.

What is your new project?

Domain: AdTech
Location: Israel
Company size: up to 10 employees
Founded in: 2021

What makes this project exciting?

The domain involves cutting-edge digital advertising solutions such as real-time bidding, programmatic integrations, audience targeting, and performance optimization.

Our next steps

✅ Intro call with a Recruiter - ✅ Intro tech interview - ✅ Technical assessment - ✅ Final client interview - ✅ Reference check - ✅ Offer

Oleksandra Studenikina・Recruiter

LinkedIn | [email protected] | +380 99 437 76 20・Telegram

Senior Backend Engineer (Python/Go)

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