Senior Backend Engineer (Python)
FIREGROUP AT A GLANCE
Founded in 2016 in Vietnam, FireGroup Technology is committed to building world-class SaaS products that make a global impact on e-commerce. From the outset, we envisioned a world where running an online business is easy, effective, and sustainable, and we have been bringing that vision to life for nearly a decade.
Our portfolio includes TrueProfit, Transcy, OneMobile, OneLoyalty, Zopi, Promer, Ali Reviews. Trusted by more than 450,000 merchants in over 175 countries and recognized by global leaders such as Shopify, Google, Meta, TikTok, and Amazon, FireGroup is proud to elevate Vietnamese innovation onto the world stage.
Why build your career with FireGroup
- Make a Global Impact: Contribute to products trusted by merchants worldwide and help solve real challenges that transform e-commerce.
- Build with an AI-first Mindset: Use AI as your daily co-pilot to make smarter decisions and accelerate problem-solving at scale.
- Unleash Your Potential: Fast-track your growth with career mobility, diverse learning resources, and an agile environment that empowers bold thinkers.
In a culture that connects us as a whole
What truly defines us is not only our technology but also our people, guided by our seven core values of Courage, Creativity, Growth, Teamwork, Ownership, Trust, and Empathy. At FireGroup, work is more than a job; it is a legacy in the making. We move with speed to solve meaningful challenges, and every Firer is encouraged to dream boldly, lead with courage, and create impact that endures.
Discover how our values come to life in every team and product we build on our culture page.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain back-end services using Python and lightweight frameworks such as FastAPI.
- Design and manage databases, including both SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
- Work with AWS and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Design and implement event-driven architectures and work with message queues.
- Contribute to microservices architecture and distributed systems development.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable software solutions with clean, testable, and maintainable code.
- Write comprehensive unit tests to verify functionality and ensure the reliability of new features
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.
- Collaborate with the quality assurance team to establish and maintain code quality metrics, including code coverage.
- Refactor and enhance existing codebases to improve performance, readability, and maintainability while ensuring high code coverage.
- Ensure the high performance and security of the applications and systems.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues
Qualifications
- Strong foundation in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and/or Functional Programming (FP).
- Expertise in Python frameworks like FastAPI or Django or Flask
- Strong experience with SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience in event-driven architectures and message queues.
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of design patterns and programming language fundamentals & advanced concepts.
- Adherence to programming principles like SOLID and DRY.
- Experience writing clean, testable, scalable, and maintainable code.
- Experience working with high-performance systems, microservices architecture, and security best practices is a plus.
- Strong communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional teams, understanding user requirements, and conveying technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Passion for technology and continuous learning.
- High sense of responsibility and ownership over your work.
Preferred Skills: (Nice to have)
- Experience with AI technologies, including machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and natural language processing (NLP).
- Familiarity with AI prompting techniques, conversational agents, or chatbots.
- Knowledge of AI model deployment and integration into existing software systems.
- Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and their AI services.
Job Benefits
We believe that motivation & personality of the employees are the only shortcut to the promotion of the corporate and contributions to the society. We will try our best to create a corporate environment where all employees can realize their dreams and goals.
Featured benefits include:
- Have opportunity to work with global merchants and join the dynamic, young and friendly project team; stable career path;
- Attractive salary based on skills and experience; 13th month salary & seniority bonus; Employee’s marriage, maternity bonus; Birthday voucher gift;
- Annual salary review;
- Premium Healthcare, annual health check;
- Regular technical seminar & external/ internal training courses;
- Providing free coffee, tea & snack;
- Internal engagement events: Teambuilding; Town-hall, birthday gift voucher, mid-autumn, new year and kick-off parties, yearly company trip;
- FireGroup Sports Clubs: Running, Football, Badminton, etc;
- Laptop/ PC/ Monitor are provided
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