Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend engineer job posting

Title: Senior Backend Engineer

About the job

Who we are, who we are looking for and why are we interested in you:
We are Behaviorally, Inc., the #1 global market leader in digital shopper marketing. With decades of experience and category expertise in shopper research, we apply our unique behavioral framework and a digital-first approach to help clients navigate the uncertainty of a changing retail environment. We help brands make better shopper marketing decisions by defining and diagnosing the digital and physical behaviors that drive shopper growth. As we tackle our ambitious growth goals, Behaviorally is looking for exceptional people who can join our passionate teams, helping some of the world's largest brands to understand, predict and influence consumer choice.
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our steadily growing engineering team. This role involves designing secure, scalable APIs and data services that power our myBehaviorally SaaS platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Python and SQL, Azure cloud services, and building reliable integrations (HubSpot, Outlook/SMTP, OpenAI), with a passion for partnering cross-functionally to bring the product vision to life.

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, or related field.
• At least 5 years of experience building production backend systems with Python (Django/DRF or FastAPI) and SQL.
• Track record designing and operating RESTful APIs and asynchronous workers (Celery/Redis), including idempotency, retries, and monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (App Service, App Gateway + WAF, Azure AD/OIDC, Key Vault, Azure SQL, Blob Storage, Monitor/App Insights).
• Proven experience integrating third-party platforms (e.g., HubSpot APIs, webhooks SMTP/OutlookOpenAI APIs).
• Strong data modeling and query-tuning skills comfortable with schema migrations and performance diagnostics.
• Proficient with testing and CI/CD (pytest, Git/GitHub, GitHub Actions) code reviews and documentation.

• Solid understanding of security best practices (OWASP, secrets management, RBAC, encryption at rest/in transit) and awareness of GDPR.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, resourceful, proactive, and willing to take ownership.
  Startup experience is a major plus.

Responsibilities:

• Own the backend development of our next-generation B2B SaaS product: Django REST APIsconsumed by a React SPA through App Gateway + WAF.
• Implement secure authentication/authorization (Azure AD SSO, optional Okta), role-based access, and multi-tenant patterns.
• Build and operate resilient async pipelines(Celery/Redis) for file processing and job orchestration expose job status to the UI.
• Integrate external systems: HubSpot(REST/webhooks), Outlook/SMTPnotifications, and OpenAIendpoints for workflow automation.
• Design and maintain schemas in Azure SQL manage artifacts/results in Azure Blob Storagewith proper retention and lineage.
• Ensure the performance, scalability, and reliability of internal-facing and external-facing services profile and optimize Python code and SQL.
• Instrument observability (structured logs, metrics, tracing via App Insights/Azure Monitor/OpenTelemetry) create runbooks and SLAs/SLOs.
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code contribute to code reviews and engineering standards.
• Keep up to date with backend, security, and Azure best practices participate in threat modeling and periodic hardening.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits
• 401k match
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• The opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

What Else Can We Tell You

Additional things to keep in mind when considering a career opportunity at Behaviorally:

• We are pretty transparent about what matters to us. Our progress against our mission, values, goals, accountability metrics and KPIS all the way up to our senior leaders are visible and available for everyone, anytime, anywhere. You will always know where we (and you) stand.
• You will feel taken care of, whether it is competitive benefits, personalized training, development and mentorship or those important additional factors that some may take for granted (competitive wages and benefits, flex time or remote working policies etc.) We know how much these matter when you are choosing a place in which you will spend the majority of your time, building your career.
• You will feel part of a team that welcomes, feels, and behaves like you. We take great care recruiting someone like you, so you can rest assured that we have done the same with the team you are joining. They too are bright, curious, reliable, candid, optimistic, and supportive of each other. The team you join is as much dedicated to seeing you succeed as they are committed to the goals of the company and the clients we serve.

Our ethical commitment to you and all our employees:

At Behaviorally, we are committed to a work environment that is inclusive to all and free of discrimination. It is our policy to be an equal opportunity employer without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, veteran status, citizenship status or any other factors prohibited by law.