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Backend Software Engineer (Part-Time / Contractor)
📅 Sep 29, 2025
Backend EngineeringPythonDjangoGenai APIs
📜 Description
- Work directly with the founder to evolve systems originally built in-house.
- Scale backend infrastructure.
- Deliver critical features for front-line recruiting teams.
🛠️ Requirements
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience (with production-grade systems)
- Strong expertise in Python and Django
- Experience building applications that leverage GenAI APIs (e.g. OpenRouter, OpenAI, etc.)
- Uses Cursor/Claude by default and has built strong workflows to balance quality with productivity
- Strong communication skills and ability to work across time zones
- Experience working independently in a remote-first environment
- Background in a high-growth startup environment
- Experience mentoring or helping other engineers grow
- Familiarity with implementing testing frameworks to ensure code quality
- Full-stack development experience in addition to backend expertise
✨ Benefits
- Flexible, remote-first work with global impact
- Opportunity to contribute to innovative projects with autonomy
- Collaborate with a distributed team across multiple regions
Full job description
Rockstar is recruiting for a fast-growing, profitable company that is blending humans and AI to build a new infrastructure for employability. This client is focused on empowering employers to recruit talent at a fraction of the traditional cost, unlocking more opportunities for everyone. The company has achieved impressive growth and profitability without outside capital, allowing them to share more of the upside with their team.
The Role
In this role, the successful candidate will work directly with the founder to accelerate the evolution of systems originally built in-house, with a focus on scaling backend infrastructure and delivering critical features that support front-line recruiting teams.
Requirements
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience (with production-grade systems)
- Strong expertise in Python and Django
- Experience building applications that leverage GenAI APIs (e.g. OpenRouter, OpenAI, etc.)
- Uses Cursor/Claude by default and has built strong workflows to balance quality with productivity
- Strong communication skills and ability to work across time zones
- Experience working independently in a remote-first environment
Bonus Points
- Background in a high-growth startup environment
- Experience mentoring or helping other engineers grow
- Familiarity with implementing testing frameworks to ensure code quality
- Full-stack development experience in addition to backend expertise
Why Join
- Flexible, remote-first work with global impact
- Opportunity to contribute to innovative projects with autonomy
- Collaborate with a distributed team across multiple regions
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