Senior Python Backend Developer (FastAPI / Celery) - Remote

$156k – $176k • No equity
|Remote (
United States
)
|8 years of exp
|Contract

Posted: 4 days ago• Recruiter recently active

Hires remotely in

United States

Remote Work Policy

Remote only

Company Location

Bengaluru

Visa Sponsorship

Not Available

Preferred Timezones

Pacific Time, Mountain Time, Central Time, Eastern Time

Collaboration Hours

3:06 PM - 5:06 PM

RelocationNot Allowed

Skills

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

AWS

About the job

Pay rate: $75 – $85/hr on C2C
Location: 100% Remote (US Nationwide)
Duration: 12 Months
Engagement: Corp-to-Corp (C2C)
Work authorization: USC, GC, H1B, GC-EAD
Client: Global media and streaming company (name confidential until shortlisting - standard US staffing practice)

What you will do:

Build scalable backend endpoints for content streaming ingestion, asset metadata, and licensing APIs.
Optimize asynchronous workers to handle video transcoding notifications and batch data processing.
Maintain clean test suites using PyTest and enforce PEP-8 standards with automated linters.

What you will bring:

7+ years of software development in Python (Python 3.10+) utilizing FastAPI, Django, or Flask.
Hands-on experience with asynchronous I/O (AsyncIO), Celery task runners, and Redis caching.
Strong background integrating media encoding pipelines, CDN origin APIs, and video metadata catalogs.
Practical knowledge of AWS (ECS, SQS, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL).

Interview process: screening call with our recruitment team, then client interview rounds (video).

Posted November 2026. Apply with your resume at [email protected] - mention the role title. No fee is ever charged to candidates.