Senior Backend Engineer (Platform Team)

Twindo is at the forefront of revolutionizing the remodeling, architecture, and interior design industry through cutting-edge AI and computer vision technology. With our LiDAR-enabled iPhone or iPad scans, we capture precise 3D representations of homes in minutes, providing interactive models with accurate-to-the-inch measurements. Our proprietary process then turns these scans into highly detailed, editable, as-built files in industry-standard formats. Our technology was featured at Apple's keynote when the iPhone's LiDAR sensor was introduced, and we now model millions of square feet each month.

As a global virtual-first company, our team members are distributed worldwide, with a concentration in the US and Europe.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build and maintain the internal platform and tooling, supporting business scalability and engineering velocity needs. Reporting to the Platform Team Lead, this role will involve a healthy mix of foundational backend work and DevOps, making it ideal for someone who likes variety in the projects they work on. The role assumes active collaboration with our iOS, Computer Vision, Visualization & Tooling, Web, Infrastructure, and Data engineers, as well as other functions within the company.

Responsibilities:

• Join our team in building the foundation that powers our business and operations.
• Build the platform and tools that directly help thousands of architecture, design, and renovation companies save time and grow their businesses through 3D capture, and that help our team serve them better.
• Ensure the scalability and reliability of a distributed processing backend that processes a high volume of 3D scans per day.
• Develop tools that empower our internal operations team to efficiently manage scan data.
• Help other engineering teams unlock higher development velocity by adopting modern DevOps practices, tools, and technologies
• Own your projects and use this autonomy to find creative, innovative ways to solve problems and deliver solutions.

Qualifications:

• It's a joy to communicate with you in both written and spoken English
• You have a strong background in Python, Django, and Django Rest Framework 
• You have experience with databases like PostgreSQL and Redis.
• You are proficient with modern agentic AI tooling and concepts like context engineering. You are an active user of Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, and you constantly explore new ways of using such tools and increasing efficiency gains.
• The test pyramid has no secrets for you, and you stress over the testability of the code you write
• You've built or maintained APIs, using monoliths or micro-services
• Major cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc., are very familiar to you
• You've worked in teams using Agile development practices, or others like ShapeUp, etc.
• You're comfortable working with infrastructure and are capable of handling DevOps tasks when necessary

Any of these qualifications will make you stand out:

• You've had experience in writing technical documents and gathering requirements
• You’re used to setting up or managing CI / CD pipelines with GitHub, GitLab, etc.
• You’ve worked on services that used Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies for asynchronous communication.
• You've had frontend experience in JavaScript, Typescript, jQuery, or any modern JavaScript framework