Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: San Francisco / Boston

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join Recentive’s core engineering team. In this role, you’ll architect and build flexible backend systems that support decision‑making for leading organizations in sports, entertainment, and broadcast. You’ll collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and client domain experts to design backend systems that prioritizes clarity, adaptability, and long‑term maintainability.

• Designing Flexible, Extensible Systems
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  Architecting Python‑based backend systems using Django, Django Rest Framework, and Celery, built to support a growing suite of enterprise analytical tools and applications across multiple domains.
• Owning the Full Backend Lifecycle
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  Developing APIs, modeling relational databases, and supporting application performance through smart caching, observability, and CI/CD workflows.
• Product‑Aware Engineering
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  Collaborating directly with stakeholders to understand business goals, gather context, and define system requirements. You’ll help shape solutions that balance technical design with real‑world constraints, often in areas where problem definitions are still emerging.
• Collaborative Systems Thinking
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  Translating data science and optimization workflows into production‑ready services that are easy to maintain and modify, coordinated through formal processes of technical specs and review.

• Backend Engineering Expertise
  : 7+ years of experience building backend systems in Python, with deep expertise in Django and Django Rest Framework, and a genuine enthusiasm for using these frameworks to craft elegant, reliable software.
• System Design and Architecture Skills
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  Experience designing systems that are easy to understand, extend, and compose, even when working with imperfect legacy code or evolving product needs.
• Async and Background Processing
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  Hands‑on experience with Celery and building distributed systems that include asynchronous and long‑running tasks. Comfort designing workflows with queues, retries, and failure handling.
• Cloud and Containerization
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  Proficiency with Docker, AWS, and Kubernetes, and an understanding of how to build backend systems that are cost‑effective, observable, and production‑ready.
• API and Data Layer Fluency
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  Experience developing RESTful APIs, working with Postgre
  
  SQL, and using tools like Redis and Dynamo
  
  DB for caching and fast data access.
• Security and Authentication
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  Familiarity with OAuth2 and role‑based access control. Experience integrating secure authentication flows and managing secrets responsibly.
• Self‑Directed and Product‑Aware
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  Ability to work through ambiguity, collaborate across functions, and make thoughtful engineering decisions without needing complete specs.

• Impactful Work: Our technology and products directly shape operational strategies at leading sports teams and leagues, broadcasters, and other key players in the live events ecosystem.
• Forward Thinking: Design and build forward‑thinking analytical solutions that blend creativity and engineering—leveraging advanced algorithms, optimization, and machine learning to solve complex, real‑world challenges.
• Collaborative Culture: We’re a growing, tight‑knit data‑centered team that values knowledge‑sharing, learning, and innovation.
• Growth & Ownership: Shape your career as a technical leader while helping build next‑generation analytical tools from the ground up.
• Just Getting Started: We’ve accomplished a lot but we’re just in the early innings of where we’ll go. Our new west‑coast office in SF is a testament to that growth and will serve as a hub for our growing team.