Backend Engineer (Golang & Python)

About the role

Avantos AI is building an AI‑native operating system for financial services and is looking for a Backend Engineer to help create the core web application. You will work with a cross‑functional team to design, develop, and scale backend services that power client onboarding, advice delivery, and workflow automation.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Golang and Python.
• Collaborate with product, design, and front‑end teams to define and ship new features.
• Implement and optimise PostgreSQL schemas, queries and data models.
• Work with event‑driven architectures and message queues, especially Kafka.
• Participate in code reviews and improve development practices.
• Manage and optimise AWS cloud infrastructure and troubleshoot production issues.
• Write clean, maintainable, well‑documented code and contribute to CI/CD pipelines.

Required profile

• 3‑5 years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Golang and/or Python.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS services and cloud architecture.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL.
• Excellent problem‑solving, analytical and written communication skills.

Required skills

• Golang
• Python
• AWS (various services)
• PostgreSQL
• Kafka
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• ArgoCD
• Terraform
• Microservices architecture
• Security best practices for cloud environments
• Monitoring and logging tools