Backend Developer – Python & Google Cloud (Remote, Colombia)

About the role

A remote Backend Developer position in Colombia, working on building and supporting scalable, cloud-native services for a modern digital platform. The engagement lasts 6 months with possible extension, starting as soon as possible, and requires meaningful overlap with US Eastern Time, including availability around 1–2 PM ET.

Key responsibilities

• Develop backend services and APIs using Python and Google Cloud Platform
• Design, test, document and maintain RESTful APIs
• Build asynchronous integrations and event-driven workflows
• Integrate APIs and services across application, platform and data systems
• Support production environments, monitoring, troubleshooting and reliability improvements
• Take part in technical design discussions, code reviews and Agile delivery
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, data teams and product partners

Required profile

• At least 4 years of hands-on Python backend development on Google Cloud Platform
• Experience owning architecture for large production systems, including service and data design, scalability, distributed messaging, database performance, failure recovery and technical trade-offs
• Advanced English is a must

Required skills

• REST API design, development, integration and production support
• Event-driven development with Google Pub/Sub or comparable messaging
• PostgreSQL and SQL
• Git and CI/CD pipelines
• Cloud-native applications, APIs, integrations and distributed systems