Jr+. Python Backend Developer
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Summary
Faros AI is seeking a software engineer to build and maintain data infrastructure and backend services for their engineering operations platform. The role involves working with Python or Node.js to ingest and transform data while collaborating with international teams.
Location: Argentina (ideally AMBA/GBA) - Hybrid preferred. Type: Full-time.
Mission
Faros AI is an operational data platform that unifies engineering data to give leaders a single view of their entire software development lifecycle. We’re looking for software engineers who want to build the future of engineering operations with us.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain data infrastructure that ingests and transforms engineering data at scale.
- Design and implement backend services/APIs balancing speed, flexibility, security, and scalability.
- Collaborate with product, data, and engineering teams to design data products and platform features.
Requirements
- Experience:
- 2 years in software engineering.
- Technical Stack:
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript + Node.js and/or Python.
- Experience designing/consuming REST/GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with building & productionizing web services, data pipelines, ETL/ELT, orchestration frameworks.
- Strong database fundamentals (SQL/NoSQL).
- CI/CD familiarity (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.).
- Experience running production workloads including monitoring, alerting, logging, metrics, traces, oncall.
- Security fundamentals.
- Cloud:
- Hands-on experience with one or more major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP (certifications are a plus).
- Collaboration & Communication:
- Comfortable working with distributed international teams.
- English:
- English C1: able to participate in technical calls and write clear communication.
- Education:
- Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering, or equivalent real-world experience.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with building & integrating with SaaS platforms.
- Experience with engineering analytics or developer-productivity tooling.
- Experience with IaC, containers, serverless, queues/event-driven architectures.
- Experience with security practices (authN/authZ, secrets management).
- Familiarity with engineering metrics (DORA, code quality, delivery metrics).
- Hands-on experience using coding agents (AI-assisted development).
Location & Work Style
Based in Argentina (ideally AMBA/GBA). Hybrid 2-3 days in person; expects partial time-zone overlap with Pacific time. Full-time.
Cultural Fit
- Serious, long-term mindset, focused, embraces high standards without perfectionism.
- Team-oriented but accountable; debates specs openly without avoiding conflict.
- Proactive problem-solving, takes end-to-end responsibility.
- Highly dependable, over-delivers, moves fast without sacrificing judgment.
- Communicational style: Direct, concise, documented, async-first.
- Core Cultural Values: Transparency, ownership, individual responsibility.