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Staff/Senior Backend Engineer

Brazil

About the Company

Ambient combines a decade of operational experience with design and engineering prowess to improve apartment living and management in the most impactful, cost-effective way possible.

The name "Ambient" embodies our vision to create a category-defining platform that seamlessly integrates smart technology into the built environment and transforms the way people live, visit, and work in multifamily communities. Our focus is on increasing the value of multifamily properties by making them more efficient to operate and more comfortable to live in.

 

Overview

We’re looking for a Senior or Staff Backend Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping the services that power the Ambient platform. Our backend systems orchestrate smart devices, property operations, user management and resident experiences across entire communities — giving this role a direct and substantial impact on how people live in Ambient-powered homes.

You’ll lead key areas of our backend architecture and help evolve the platform as we scale — from designing resilient APIs and distributed systems to integrating with third-party services that bridge the physical and digital worlds. This is a high-impact, hands-on role for someone who combines deep technical expertise with system-level thinking.

We’re looking for a strategic thinker and creative problem solver — someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, understands how to iterate on MVP solutions, elevates those around them, and builds for long-term maintainability. This individual is a software craftsman with a focus on code quality and unit testing as well as ownership for the work delivered. You’ll collaborate closely with product and design to deliver end-to-end features, drive architectural improvements, and push the boundaries of what our platform can do.

 

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve the long-term technical vision and architectural blueprint for backend systems, ensuring alignment with product goals, platform scalability, and team growth
  • Design and implement scalable, resilient backend services and APIs, primarily in Python, including third-party integrations and event-driven data pipelines
  • Own projects end-to-end — from technical design and implementation to testing, deployment, and long-term maintenance
  • Collaborate closely with Product Management, Design, Quality and DevOps to translate business needs into robust backend solutions
  • Strengthen team-wide engineering practices through high standards in code quality, observability, unit testing, and documentation
  • Mentor other engineers through code reviews, technical design sessions, and pairing
  • Providing guidance and suggestions around new or upcoming technologies
  • Contribute to organizational learning through rigorous root cause analysis and preventative improvements following production issues

 

Qualifications

  • 8-12 years of professional backend software engineering experience, including 2+ years operating at a senior or staff level
  • Strong proficiency in Python, with deep knowledge of its libraries, tooling, and best practices; experience with Golang is a plus
  • Demonstrated knowledge in designing and building distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures for scalability, resilience, security, and maintainability in production environments
  • Hands-on experience integrating with third-party APIs and managing external dependencies
  • Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS (e.g., Lambda, SNS, EKS), and container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including schema design and performance tuning
  • Experience with tools and patterns for observability, debugging, and engineering excellence (e.g., metrics, logs, tracing)
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Formal education in Computer Science (BS/MS), or equivalent practical experience
  • Nice-to-have: Experience with FastAPI, Pydantic, Kafka

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Ambient Property Technologies Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability or genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

A note to recruitment agencies: Please don’t reach out to Ambient employees or leaders about our roles -- we’ve got recruiting covered. We don’t accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Thank you for your understanding.

 

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