Software Engineer

Intellect Group is a fast-growing tech team focused on building modern infrastructure for media and advertising analytics. They are seeking a backend software engineer who will own backend services that enable clients to measure campaign performance and scale to handle large volumes of events.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain backend services and REST/GRPC APIs using Python (experience with Django or similar frameworks preferred)
• Design and optimise database schemas and queries for PostgreSQL ; work with analytical warehouses like Snowflake
• Implement reliable data ingestion and ETL flows that move event and campaign data between systems
• Ensure services are production-ready: resilient, well-tested, monitored, and documented
• Troubleshoot and tune systems running on Linux-based infrastructure; participate in incident response and postmortems
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, data teams, and product to deliver end-to-end features
• Contribute to technical design, code reviews, and continuous improvement of engineering practices

Requirements:

• 3+ years building production backend systems
• Strong Python skills and familiarity with a web framework (Django, Flask, FastAPI, etc.)
• Solid experience with relational databases (Postgres) — schema design, indexing, query performance
• Practical knowledge of data warehouses (Snowflake or equivalent) and moving data between OLTP and analytics systems
• Comfortable working in Linux/Unix environments and using command-line tooling
• Good understanding of API design, authentication, and asynchronous/background processing
• Hands-on experience with AWS (or another cloud provider) services for compute, storage, and data processing
• Background in ad-tech, measurement, or programmatic advertising
• Familiarity with message queues, stream processing, or orchestration tools
• Prior exposure to CI/CD, containerization (Docker), or infrastructure-as-code