Software Engineer - Backend (Remote)
Hybrid (Remote (IN))$20k - $40kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Backend-focused software engineer role at Speedy Labs, a fully remote early-stage startup building AI-powered rebate management platform. Role involves designing and maintaining scalable backend services, APIs, and integrations using Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services for our rebate management platform and integration tools.
- Build and optimize APIs to enable seamless communication between frontend and backend systems.
- Work with Python, Django, and PostgreSQL to create efficient, maintainable, and secure backend applications.
- Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance, focusing on high-traffic systems.
- Collaborate with the product team to define, design, and implement backend features that meet business needs.
- Integrate third-party services and ERP platforms into the backend infrastructure.
- Implement data storage solutions and optimize database queries for performance and efficiency.
- Manage infrastructure and deployments on AWS, ensuring security, monitoring, and high availability.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and fix production issues and implement scalable solutions.
Qualifications
- Strong proficiency in Python and Django with proven experience in building scalable backend systems.
- Expertise in relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, including query optimization and data modeling.
- Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
- Familiarity with cloud technologies and services, especially AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, etc.).
- Knowledge of modern DevOps practices and containerization tools like Docker.
- Experience with serverless architectures and event-driven systems is a plus.
- Strong understanding of software development principles, including data structures, algorithms, and best practices for writing clean, maintainable code.
- Familiarity with asynchronous programming and task queues (e.g., Celery).
Skills
Required:PythonDjangoPostgreSQLRESTful APIsAWSDocker
Nice to have:GraphQLCelery
Benefits
- Remote-first role with flexibility to work from anywhere.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Speedy Labs
Maximize profits with AI-powered rebate management.
Speedy Labs helps manufacturers and distributors ditch error-prone spreadsheets that cost them millions in missed rebate opportunities for an AI-powered solution that not only tracks rebate payments and their performance but also unlocks insights from their financial data silos that uplifts their bottom-line profit margins. $1 trillion worth of rebates are exchanged every year in North America alone.
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