DevOps & Backend Engineer
Summary
A medior-level (4+ years) engineer at Antonie designs AWS infrastructure with Terraform, runs containerized workloads on EKS/ECS, and builds Python FastAPI backend services on MongoDB, supporting the company's AI-driven sustainable agriculture platform. Focus areas include CI/CD, observability, scalability, and security.
Are you ready to build software that solves real-world challenges on the frontlines of innovation?
Experience Level: Medior (4+ years of relevant experience)
The Opportunity: A role with Real Impact
At Antonie, we combine advanced AI with deep expertise in agriculture, soil health, and sustainability to create solutions that make a real difference. We are looking for a versatile DevOps & Backend Engineer who can bridge the gap between application development and infrastructure.
- Design and manage resilient AWS infrastructure using Terraform
- Build and optimize high-performance backend services using FastAPI and MongoDB
- Manage containerized workloads and services on AWS EKS and ECS
- Design and implement continuous integration pipelines, testing infrastructure, and support
- Improve scalability, performance, observability, and security of infrastructure to support rapidly increasing demands
- Proactively monitor systems to identify issues and anomalies and opportunities for improvement
What You Bring
You are energetic, positive, and self-motivated. You thrive in a collaborative environment, embrace new ideas, and aren’t afraid of challenges. Above all, you take pride in your achievements and go the extra mile to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Communication: You communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing, especially when documenting architectural decisions. You can translate complex infrastructure concepts into plain English
- Maintainability: You have a "leave it better than you found it" mindset when it comes to code quality and technical debt
- Problem Solving: You are able to debug complex issues across the entire stack
- Team Player: You enjoy pair programming, participating in architectural brainstorms, and giving and receiving thoughtful, constructive code reviews
- Cross-Functional Mindset: You are eager to sit down with our Data Scientists or our biologists to understand their bottlenecks while also helping fellow engineers optimizedeployment pipelines
- At least 4 years of experience with Python specifically with modern web asynchronous frameworks like FastAPI (or similar)
- Experience with testing frameworks such as Pytest
- Proficiency with MongoDB, including schema design and performance tuning
- Knowledge of MongoDB indexing strategies and aggregation pipelines for large datasets
- At least 5 years of experience with AWS (Compute, Networking, IAM). Specific experience with AWS Fargate and EKS is highly preferred
- At least 3 years of experience managing a Kubernetes cluster
- Strong knowledge of Git, GitHub, and Github Actions
- At least 3 years of experience with Terraform
- Having experience maintaining an MLFlow or similar product is a good plus
Join a fast-growing company where you can develop your skills, work on high-impact projects, and contribute to sustainable agriculture.
We offer a solid salary package, meaningful projects and a team that values innovation and collaboration.
What We Offer
- A challenging role with direct impact
- Of course: a competitive salary and 25 vacation days
- Plenty of opportunities for personal and professional growth
- Flexibility in your working hours and location
- A company laptop to support your work
- A monthly communication allowance and a work-from-home allowance
- A dynamic and engaged international team of 25+ colleagues
- A fantastic work environment based on our four Core Values: Drive our Dreams | Deliver the Best | Engage with Passion | Collaborate to Flourish
Want to learn more? Visit us at www.antonie.aior follow us on LinkedIn