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# #5 - Senior Backend Engineer - Python & Databricks at Muttdata

- **Company:** Muttdata
- **Location:** Ciudad de, Mexico
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-31
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/muttdata/adf2654e-dc04-49d7-8b17-83660c321b01

## Job description

🚀 Join Our Remote Data Products & Machine Learning Startup! 🚀 At Muttdata, we build innovative Data Products and Machine Learning solutions that help companies solve complex business challenges. As a fast-growing, remote-first startup, we’re passionate about technology, collaboration, and continuous learning. We are looking for an experienced, hands-on, and ownership-driven Backend Engineer (Advanced) to join our team 🐶🚀. In this role you will design, build, and operate production-grade backend services and REST APIs with Python and FastAPI on Microsoft Azure, including a communications dispatch service that integrates messaging queues and external APIs such as Braze. You will work closely with development, data, and IT/DevOps teams, integrating backend services with Azure components, relational databases, third-party APIs, and data processes running on platforms like Databricks. Reliability, observability, and clean, maintainable code are at the core of this role.

🚀 What We Do

- Leveraging our expertise, we build modern Machine Learning systems for demand planning and budget forecasting.
- Developing scalable data infrastructures, we enhance high-level decision-making, tailored to each client.
- Offering comprehensive Data Engineering and custom AI solutions, we optimize cloud-based systems.
- Using Generative AI, we help e-commerce platforms and retailers create higher-quality ads, faster.
- Building deep learning models, we enhance visual recognition and automation for various industries, improving product categorization, quality control, and information retrieval.
- Developing recommendation models, we personalize user experiences in e-commerce, streaming, and digital platforms, driving engagement and conversions.

🌟 Our Partnerships

- Amazon Web Services
- Astronomer
- Databricks

🌟 Our Values

- 📊 We are Data Nerds
- 🤗 We are Open Team Players
- 🚀 We Take Ownership
- 🌟 We Have a Positive Mindset

🔍 Curious about what we’re up to? Check out [our](https://blog.muttdata.ai/tag/Case%20Studies/1) case studies and dive into our[blog post](https://blog.muttdata.ai/) to learn more about our culture and the exciting projects we’re working on! 🚀

## Responsibilities 🤓

- Design, develop, and evolve backend services and REST APIs with Python and FastAPI, applying best practices in architecture, security, and maintainability.
- Build and operate the communications dispatch service, integrating message queues and external APIs, with idempotency, retries, rate limiting, and error handling mechanisms.
- Integrate and orchestrate platform components, including Azure services, databases, third-party APIs, and data processes running on platforms such as Databricks.
- Design and maintain persistence solutions in Azure SQL, including data modeling, migrations, data integrity, and query optimization.
- Ensure backend reliability and observability in production by implementing monitoring, tracing, automated testing, and failure recovery mechanisms.
- Collaborate with development, data, and IT/DevOps teams on technical decisions, component integration, CI/CD pipelines, and deployments across environments, maintaining clear technical documentation.

Required Skills 🚀

- 4+ years of experience in backend development, with demonstrable participation in building, integrating, and operating production services.
- Strong command of Python and experience building REST APIs with FastAPI or equivalent frameworks.
- Experience designing modular, maintainable software, applying principles such as SOLID, separation of concerns, and automated testing best practices.
- Experience integrating APIs and distributed systems, including authentication, error handling, timeouts, retries, and resiliency patterns.
- Experience with asynchronous processing and messaging systems, using queues, dead-letter handling, and idempotency (e.g., Azure Service Bus or equivalents).
- Strong SQL and relational database skills, including modeling, querying, migrations, and ORM usage; SQL Server or Azure SQL preferred.
- Experience with Docker and deploying containerized services.
- Hands-on experience with cloud services, preferably Microsoft Azure, including monitoring, Git version control, and participation in continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) processes.

## Nice to Have 😉

- Experience with AI-assisted software development using tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor, or Spec-Driven Development (SDD) practices, with sound judgment to validate the quality, security, and maintainability of generated code.
- Experience integrating and orchestrating data processes from backend services, especially with Azure Databricks or other processing platforms.
- Experience with containerized infrastructure in the cloud, including Kubernetes/AKS or Azure Container Registry.
- Familiarity with Martech, engagement, or digital experimentation platforms, including push, email, in-app communications integrations, or A/B testing.

🎁 Perks

- Remote-first culture – work from anywhere! 🌍
- AWS, DBT, Google Cloud, Azure & Databricks certifications fully covered
- Birthday off + an extra vacation week (Mutt Week! 🏖️)
- Referral bonuses – help us grow the team & get rewarded!
- [Maslow](https://maslow.hr/): Monthly credits to spend in our benefits marketplace.
- ✈️🏝️[Annual Mutters' Trip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq1x2krHGb8&t=2s) – an unforgettable getaway with the team!

## About Muttdata

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Muttdata is an AI and data consulting firm that helps enterprises build scalable data platforms, AI applications, and martech solutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: IT Services and IT Consulting, with a focus on Data & AI, Martech, and Adtech solutions.
- **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise clients in retail, ecommerce, CPG, financial services, telecom, healthcare, and gaming.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We craft AI and data-driven technology with precision and empathy, transforming complexity into scalable solutions that deliver smarter business outcomes.” [muttdata.ai/about-us](https://www.muttdata.ai/about-us)

## Products & Services
Muttdata delivers a range of service offerings rather than standalone products. Major capabilities include:
- **Data Solutions**: Modern Data Stack, Customer Data Platform, Data Clean Rooms, Identity Resolution.
- **Custom Models**: Tailored machine learning models for specific business needs.
- **Measurement & Attribution**: Single source of truth, Data-Driven Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA), Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), Lift measurement.
- **Paid Media Optimization**: Cross-channel optimization, AI-fueled forecasts and recommendations.
- **Own Media Personalization**: Gen-AI-driven personalized messages for organic growth and retention.
- **Gen AI Applications**: Fashion Model Generation, Virtual Try On, Localized Tailored Ads.
- **Data Infrastructure**: Data Warehouses & Lakes, DataOps, Real-Time Insights with OLAP & Streaming.
- **Data Engineering**: Data Quality and Integration, Customer 360 Platforms, Compliance & PII Protection.
- **AI Applications**: Balance Reconciliation (AI for suspicious activity), Credit Scoring (lower first-payment default rates).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 171 employees (as of 2026, +13.9% YoY), 300+ projects successfully deployed [linkedin.com](https://ar.linkedin.com/company/mutt-data)
- **Notable Clients**: Mercado Libre, Clip, Claro, Rappi, Galicia, Mabe, Ripley, BCP, Forus, MODO, Social Learning, ClassDojo, RapidSoS, InConcert, Connecture, Sirum [linkedin.com](https://ar.linkedin.com/company/mutt-data)
- **Notable Partners**: AWS (Advanced Consulting Partner, sole SOLA partner with Advertising and Marketing Technologies Competency, Machine Learning Consulting Competency), Databricks (Select Tier partner, AI Enterprise Partner of the Year 2025, 90+ certified experts) [muttdata.ai](https://www.muttdata.ai/)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount growth of 13.9% YoY, recognition as Databricks LATAM AI Enterprise Partner of the Year, expansion into US market, and active hiring for roles like Agentic AI DevOps Specialist.

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep, certified expertise in both AWS and Databricks ecosystems, rare in the LATAM region.
- Full-stack Data/ML team with 10+ years of experience across industries.
- Rapid delivery model (tangible results within weeks) using Agile Pods.
- Strong track record with major Latin American enterprises and global tech companies.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding AI and data-driven solutions for enterprise clients, with a growing emphasis on agentic AI, generative AI personalization, and advanced attribution.
- Building out capabilities in real-time data infrastructure and compliance.
- Scaling the team across LATAM and the US while maintaining a remote-first culture.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: “Remote since before it was cool” – fully remote positions available, with a focus on outcome rather than hours. [muttdata.ai/culture](https://www.muttdata.ai/culture)
- **Perks**: AWS & Databricks certifications fully covered; birthday off; an extra vacation week (“Mutt Week”).
- **Culture**: Collaborative, curious, ownership-driven. High employer rating of 4.6/5.0 on LinkedIn (71 reviews), with strong scores in Culture (4.7) and Career (4.6). [linkedin.com](https://ar.linkedin.com/company/mutt-data)
- **Open roles**: Agentic AI DevOps Specialist, Data Analytics Senior (Remote – Argentina), Data Engineer Lead – Databricks – Eng (Remote – LatAm). [jobs.lever.co/muttdata](https://jobs.lever.co/muttdata)

## Sources
1. [muttdata.ai](https://www.muttdata.ai/)
2. [muttdata.ai/about-us](https://www.muttdata.ai/about-us)
3. [muttdata.ai/culture](https://www.muttdata.ai/culture)
4. [jobs.lever.co/muttdata](https://jobs.lever.co/muttdata)
5. [linkedin.com](https://ar.linkedin.com/company/mutt-data)

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