Senior Backend Engineer (Product Team)

AppFollow is an App review management and ASO platform.

Our main goal is to ease the everyday routines of app developers, product managers, marketing teams, customer support, etc. AppFollow helps you gather and manage your apps and games data, increase app average rating, improve app store rankings, and app user loyalty.

This fully remote role is for a Senior Backend Engineer to help grow AppFollow globally. You'll work on features that analyze and manage app ratings and reviews, automate workflows, and track app store performance.

About the Role

• Develop and optimize the functionality of AppFollow product

• Contribute to the system for automating user interaction with customer reviews (tagging, responding to reviews, reports generation, etc.)

• Support systems for getting insights from customer data (ratings and reviews)

• Contribute to AI-management technologies (semantic analysis, summarization etc.)

• Support internal and public API to core data entities

• Design, build, maintain and document an efficient, testable, reliable, secure and scalable codebase.

• Contribute with other developers to design and improve the entire system architecture. 

• Interaction with legacy services

• Collaborating with the Platform team to deploy the application to various environments and ensure smooth operation, adopt accepted standards, practices and processes to the maintainable systems.

About you

• 5+ years of software development experience in backend

• 3+ years of asyncio experience in Python development.

• Proficiency in FastAPI for API endpoint development.

• Strong SQL skills, particularly in MySQL or PostgreSQL, Experience with ORM frameworks (preferably SQLAlchemy

• Experience with NoSQL DBs (MongoDB)

• Experience with message-brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka)

• Experience with unit testing (Pytest).

• Upper intermediate English proficiency

It would be nice to have

• Experience with ML projects (NLP with LLMs)

• Experience with integration with big LLMs (development of assistants, RAG, etc)

• Experience with vector storage DBs

• Experience in data processing pipelines and automation (e.g. Airflow, prefect)

• Experience with cloud-based services (AWS)

• Experience with RND projects 

Benefits we offer

• Full-time remote job. Though you’re always welcome to spend time with us in monthly All hands in our hubs: Helsinki, Belgrade, Tbilisi, Batumi, Yerevan

• Paid Vacation and Sick leaves. Take the time you need to stay motivated, charged, and balanced. By prior agreement, you can have days off for special occasions

• Generous social benefits package including health insurance, equipment reimbursement, home office moderation bonus, and many more

• Stock options bonus according to the employee stock ownership plan

• You’ll have executive-level visibility into how the company is run and performing. We are always ready to provide dedicated support and fast-track your onboarding, including giving you the tools you need to be successful.

The biggest benefit is our awesome AppFollow team. We're a team of open-minded and friendly high-skilled professionals that enjoy creating a great product, growing together, and supporting each other.

Jump on the board!

Hiring process

- HR screening interview - 15 min

- Technical interview - 90 min
- Culture fit interview - 60 min
- Recommendations check 

Expected timeline: 2–4 weeks from application to offer.