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Senior Backend Developer

VirtualVocations
Full Timesenior
Rockville, Maryland, USPosted February 24, 2026

Job Description

A company is looking for a Senior Backend Developer (Python) to join their Streaming engineering team.

Key Responsibilities

Build and evolve Python backend services for real-time transcription

Design and maintain low-latency systems that process, enrich, and route live audio and transcription data

Collaborate closely with Product, Research, Data Science, and Engineering teams

Required Qualifications

5+ years of experience as a backend engineer, with a strong focus on Python

Solid experience building production-grade Python services

Experience designing and operating scalable, distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS preferred)

Hands-on knowledge of async processing, concurrency, and event-driven architectures

Experience working with real-time data flows and service-to-service APIs

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