Lead Backend Engineer (Python/FastAPI) – Digital Innovation Agency | Mexico

Job Summary

You will play a key role in building, maintaining, and scaling a core backend API platform. This is a highly hands‑on leadership role where you will spend most of your time writing production code while guiding technical decisions and setting backend engineering standards. You will own the backend lifecycle, ensuring systems are robust, secure, and designed to scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example through hands‑on development of robust, scalable, and secure RESTful and event‑driven APIs using FastAPI and OpenAPI 3.0+.
• Own backend architecture and technical execution, serving as a primary contributor to the codebase.
• Establish and enforce best practices for API design, versioning, documentation, and maintainability.
• Design and build modular, extensible backend systems integrating multiple services, databases, and third‑party clients.
• Develop high‑performance, low‑latency APIs using async/await ...