Python Software Engineer

Role Overview

• Build the product-facing services that power personalized user experiences across Cafeyn
• Develop high-performance backend systems supporting recommendations, search, content discovery, and dynamic content experiences
• Work closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and Backend Engineers to transform data and algorithms into customer-facing features
• Design and develop Python services powering recommendations and search
• Build APIs consumed by Cafeyn products
• Participate in architecture decisions
• Develop low-latency services
• Build real-time data processing applications
• Optimize performance and scalability
• Ensure service reliability under high traffic
• Write maintainable and testable code
• Conduct code reviews
• Improve CI/CD pipelines
• Maintain technical documentation
• Partner with Product teams to define technical solutions
• Collaborate with Data Scientists to operationalize models
• Work with Infrastructure teams on deployment and scalability

Requirements

• 5+ years in Software Development
• Expert-level Python API development
• Recommendation systems (Nice to Have)
• Search engines (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch) (Nice to Have)
• Machine learning model serving (Nice to Have)
• Event-driven architectures (Nice to Have)
• Distributed systems (Nice to Have)
• Database management (Nice to Have)
• Docker and Kubernetes (Nice to Have)
• CI/CD practices (Nice to Have)

Tech Stack

• Distributed Systems
• Docker
• ElasticSearch
• Kubernetes
• Python

Benefits

• We provide a Swile card for your meal vouchers
• Sidecare health insurance
• Mobility package to reimburse your transport subscription
• Partnership with Wellpass that gives you access to fitness classes and wellness activities for both exercise and relaxation
• Access to our mental health platform teale
• Work remotely two days per week
• VIP code for Cafeyn, giving you unlimited access to all content on our platform
• Four office meet-ups per year