Senior Backend Engineer | Django & Python

Location: Zahraa El Maadi

Work Type: Full time - Onsite

Experience Required: Minimum of 5 years

Type:  Full-time | Contract Experience:  5+ years

Purpose of the Role

We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build a large-scale, multi-tenant platform in the charity-tech space. You'll own backend services across a Django monolith core, FastAPI async microservices, and an event-driven infrastructure built on Kafka, Elasticsearch, Celery, and Keycloak.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Django apps, DRF APIs (200+ endpoints), and async FastAPI services
• Design Celery task pipelines with Redis for background processing and scheduling
• Build Elasticsearch indices for full-text and Arabic-language search
• Write Kafka producers/consumers for event-driven workflows with reliable delivery guarantees
• Integrate Keycloak for SSO, JWT auth, multi-tenant RBAC, and Admin API provisioning
• Manage PostgreSQL at scale, complex queries, multi-schema design, migrations
• Write pytest-django tests with >80% coverage against real services

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years Python · 4+ years production Django + DRF
• FastAPI (async, Pydantic v2)
• Celery + Redis (chains, scheduling, idempotency)
• Elasticsearch 8.x (DSL queries, aggregations)
• Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, offset management)
• Keycloak (OIDC/OAuth 2.0, RBAC, Admin API)
• PostgreSQL 16 · Docker · GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and practical understanding of the Scrum framework.

Core Skills

• Odoo JSON-RPC integration
• AWS (MSK, EKS, S3) · Terraform
• Multi-tenant SaaS patterns
• Arabic text / RTL data handling
• AI usage.
• Django 5 · FastAPI · DRF · PostgreSQL · Redis · Celery · Elasticsearch · Kafka · Keycloak · AWS · Docker · Kubernetes

Languages

• English: Professional (written and spoken).
• Arabic: Native or advanced proficiency is required.