Senior Backend Developer, Remote

Location: Remote (Pakistan)
Job Type: Full-time
Work Schedule: 09:00 AM-05:00 PM (Pacific Standard Time)

Role Overview:

We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer with at least 5 years of professional experience to join our growing team. You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining backend systems, with a strong focus on large-scale crawlers and supporting data-driven and infrastructure solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of backend systems and data products.
• Build scalable, high-performance infrastructure to support data-heavy applications.
• Optimize backend systems for maintainability, performance, and scalability.
• Manage and troubleshoot production systems, ensuring uptime and data accuracy.
• Develop and refine automated data crawling/scraping pipelines.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts, and stakeholders across time zones.
• Mentor junior developers, ensuring adherence to best practices and code quality.
• Maintain up-to-date technical documentation.
• Explore new ideas in data-driven and infrastructure-focused applications, including AI-driven solutions.
• Leverage AI/ML models to streamline experimentation, advance research, and deliver production solutions.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience with at least 3+ years of hands-on Python experience in production (Flask, FastAPI preferred).
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and SQL databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL).
• Proven experience designing, building, and supporting backend systems from scratch.
• Comfortable managing and optimizing live production environments.
• Familiarity with data crawling/scraping techniques and large-scale data processing.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently in a remote setup.

Nice to Have (Plus Points):

• Experience with PHP in hybrid environments (LAMP/LEMP stacks).
• Background in infrastructure, scaling systems, and distributed databases.
• Hands-on experience with data crawling at scale.
• Interest or prior work in AI/ML-driven solutions.
• Solid foundation in statistics, mathematics, and machine learning.
• Previous experience with tech startups or software companies.
• Mentorship or leadership experience with junior developers.
• Contributions to personal or open-source projects.

What you’ll work on(early projects may include)

• Designing, building, and maintaining backend systems for data-heavy applications, with a primary focus on large-scale crawlers and market feeds.
• Contributing to projects spanning vehicle history and market data (VinAudit.com), scalable scraping solutions, and proxy infrastructure across datacenter, ISP, and mobile networks (SquidProxies.com) — delivering aggregated insights to enterprise customers and building internal systems for scalability.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize data pipelines, infrastructure, and performance.
• Solving backend infrastructure challenges across multiple products.
• Exploring opportunities to integrate AI/ML and private models into data-driven solutions.

Benefits & Perks:

• Fully Remote Work: Work from anywhere with reliable internet.
• Healthcare Coverage for you and your family.
• Paid Leave & Holidays, with time to rest and recharge.
• Equipment Funds Support to help set up or upgrade your home office.
• Profit Sharing: Monthly and annual bonuses tied to performance.
• Long-Term Career Growth Be part of a company that values stability and growth.
• Collaborative Culture Work with a supportive, globally distributed team.

About Us:

AutoScale Ventures is a technology-driven company with 50+ team members across the Philippines, Pakistan, India, the U.S., China, and Canada. We operate a group of businesses spanning tech, data services, and infrastructure, and AI, with some of our main products and ventures around:

• Vehicledata (VinAudit.com)
• Proxy infrastructure solutions (SquidProxies.com)

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We look forward to meeting the right person for this role!