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.
• Contributed 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.
• Residential server network initiatives
• 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:

• Vehicle history and market data (VinAudit.com)
• Proxy infrastructure solutions (SquidProxies.com)
• Residential server network

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