Job Description
Company Description
Company Description
Accesa is a leading technology company headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, with offices in Oradea and 20 years of experience in turning business challenges into opportunities and growth.
A value-driven organisation, it has established itself as a partner of choice for major brands in Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, and Banking. It covers the complete digital evolution journey of its customers, from ideation and requirements setup to software development and managed services solutions.
With more than 1,200 IT professionals, Accesa also has a fast-growing footprint, establishing itself as an employer of choice for IT professionals who are passionate about problem-solving through technology. Coming together in strong tech teams with a customer-centric approach, they enable businesses to grow, delivering value for our clients, partners, industry, and community.
Job Description
We are hiring for a major customer in the agricultural industry and looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong Python expertise to design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services. In this role, you will work on scalable backend systems, data processing flows, API integrations, and cloud-based architectures, collaborating closely with mobile, DevOps, Product, and other engineering teams.
You will be expected to take ownership of backend features and system behavior end to end, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain production-grade backend services using Python as the primary programming language.
- Build and integrate REST APIs for internal and external consumers.
- Work with AWS cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, and common cloud architecture patterns.
- Develop and maintain data processing flows, including batch, streaming, or near real-time pipelines.
- Integrate backend services with external systems, third-party APIs, and AI inference services.
- Design and work with relational and/or NoSQL databases, depending on system requirements.
- Contribute to event-driven architectures using queues, messaging systems, or similar patterns.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD pipelines, deployments, versioning, and environment management.
- Implement and improve logging, monitoring, and observability practices to support production systems.
- Debug complex production issues across multiple services and identify root causes.
- Ensure backend systems are scalable, reliable, performant, and maintainable.
- Collaborate with mobile, Product, DevOps, and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to planning, estimation, and technical decision-making.
- Proactively identify risks, technical dependencies, and opportunities for system improvements.
Qualifications
Must Have
- Strong professional experience as a Backend Engineer, with solid experience in Python.
- Experience building and maintaining production-grade backend services.
- Good understanding of REST API design, implementation, and integration.
- Practical experience with AWS cloud services and basic cloud architecture patterns.
- Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Understanding of data processing concepts, such as incoming data streams, batch processing, or near real-time flows.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, versioning, and environment management.
- Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability tools for debugging production systems.
- Strong problem-solving skills, especially in distributed or multi-service environments.
- Ability to debug complex issues across services, systems, and integrations.
- Good communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Ownership mindset and accountability for feature quality and system behavior.
- Attention to performance, reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
- Ability to understand the wider system impact of technical decisions.
- Comfortable working in agile teams and adapting to changing priorities.
Nice to Have
- Basic understanding of or exposure to Go.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, queues, messaging systems, or asynchronous processing.
- Experience integrating with AI inference services or machine learning-related APIs.
- Experience designing backend systems that handle high-volume or performance-sensitive workloads.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, containerization, or orchestration tools.
- Experience working closely with mobile engineering teams.
- Experience in systems where reliability, observability, and production support are critical.
As a people-first organisation, we believe diversity strengthens our teams and drives innovation. All employment decisions are based on merit, skills, and performance, without discriminating based on any personal characteristic. This reinforces our commitment to providing an inclusive and respectful workplace.
Additional Information
At Accesa you can
Enjoy our holistic benefits program that covers the four pillars that we believe come together to support our wellbeing, covering social, physical, emotional wellbeing, as well as work-life fusion.
- Physical Wellbeing: Our wellbeing program includes medical benefits, gym support, and personalised fitness options for an active lifestyle, complemented by team events and the Healthy Habits Club.
- Work-Life Fusion: In very dynamic industries such as IT, the line between our professional and personal lives can quickly become blurred. Having a one-size-fits-one approach gives us the flexibility to define the work-life dynamic that works for us.
- Emotional Wellbeing: We believe that to maintain our overall health, we need to invest in our mental wellbeing just as much as we do in our physical health, social connections or in achieving work-life balance.
- Social Wellbeing: As a growing community in a hybrid environment, we want to ensure we remain connected not just by the great work we do every day but through our passions and interests.
