Backend Software Developer

Responsibilities

• Design and develop the backend of an enterprise workforce management platform using Python and FastAPI.
• Implement REST APIs, business logic, approval workflows, authentication, authorization, and audit logging.
• Design PostgreSQL data structures, database migrations, and efficient queries.
• Implement integration with Active Directory and OIDC-based identity providers.
• Develop scheduled background processes, notifications, data validation, and analytical data exports.
• Maintain clean module boundaries within a modular monolith architecture.
• Develop automated tests and support deployment through GitLab CI/CD and Kubernetes.
• Use modern neural-network-based coding assistants to accelerate implementation, refactoring, testing, and debugging.
• Review and validate AI-generated code for correctness, security, maintainability, and performance.
• Collaborate closely with the Flutter developer, business analyst, QA engineers, and DevOps engineer.

Required Qualifications

• At least 3 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in C# and .NET, including object-oriented design, asynchronous programming, and backend development.
• Practical ability to develop production-quality applications in Python, preferably using FastAPI.
• Demonstrated experience with AI-assisted software development using modern large language models and neural coding tools, such as Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent.
• Ability to use AI tools efficiently for code generation, architecture exploration, debugging, refactoring, and automated test development.
• Ability to independently review, troubleshoot, and improve AI-generated Python code.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, and authentication principles.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy or equivalent ORM frameworks, and database migrations.
• Familiarity with Git, Docker, automated testing, and CI/CD.
• Understanding of application security, data integrity, concurrency, and transaction management.
• Fluent Azerbaijani and Russian.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, and Pydantic.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, and Keycloak.
• Experience integrating LDAP, Active Directory, or OpenID Connect.
• Experience with background jobs, idempotent operations, and event processing.
• Familiarity with S3, Apache Iceberg, Trino, or enterprise data pipelines.
• Experience developing enterprise applications with complex role-based access and approval workflows.

Practical Evaluation

Candidates must be prepared to demonstrate their ability to develop a functional Python/FastAPI service using AI coding assistants, explain the generated implementation, identify defects, and improve the resulting code.

We are looking for an experienced software engineer who can use AI to increase development productivity without compromising engineering quality.