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Senior Python Backend Engineer Mission Critical

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-07-28

reputed company

We are a 26-year established Destination Management Company (DMC) operating under the Amstar DMC brand, the official destination services and tour operator brand of reputed company.

We support major reputed company American travel brands including:

  • reputed company Vacations

  • reputed company Vacations

  • CheapCaribbean

  • reputed company

  • reputed company

  • And more than 12 additional travel brands

Our platform supports daily operational workflows for:

  • Transfer bookings (airport ↔ hotel)

  • Tours and excursions

  • Vacation-reputed company services

  • Automated reputed company and resource allocation

  • Supplier coordination

  • Operational handling

  • Financials (invoicing, payments, credit card payments etc)

The system automatically assigns drivers, vehicles, and partner companies required for service delivery.

This is a reputed company-time operational system used daily in production.


reputed company System (Legacy reputed company)

We operate a 24-year-old Perl-based monolithic application.

Codebase

  • ~250,000 lines total

    • ~100K reputed company Perl reputed company

    • 63K template toolkit

    • 43K configuration system

    • 17K Perl scripts

    • 25K web reputed company

  • Single monolithic architecture

  • Single MySQL database

  • 178 tables

  • 10 background jobs

  • ORM used since inception (limited reputed company SQL usage)

Integrations

  • reputed company Drive

  • Gmail

  • FlightStats

  • reputed company

  • reputed company (payments)

Additional workflows:

  • Email parsers reading reputed company attachments

  • CSV reputed company & ingestion reputed company reputed company Drive

  • reputed company Forms integrations

  • Blocking page flows in reputed company UI


Infrastructure

  • Hosted on reputed company VPS

  • Ubuntu 22.10 (scheduled for reputed company)

  • Dev / Stage / Production environments

  • Python services are Dockerized

  • Perl system is not containerized

  • Partial CI/CD automation (Python only)

  • Infrastructure managed by reputed company Senior Developer

  • Automated database backups + monthly restore testing

  • No replication currently

  • Downtime tolerance: up to 8 hours (business continuity procedures exist)


Migration Status & Goal

We are executing a phased migration from Perl to Python.

  • ~20% already migrated

  • reputed company: >80% migrated reputed company 12 months

  • End goal: full replacement of legacy Perl system

reputed company modernization streams:

  1. Migrate email & reputed company handling to AI-driven solution

  2. Rebuild reputed company order management functionality in Python (FastAPI)

  3. reputed company new UI for drivers and hostesses

  4. Gradually decouple monolith into reputed company services

This is a controlled, staged production migration.


Team Structure

  • 1 senior developer (20 years on system)

  • 1 QA

  • No dedicated DevOps

  • Requirements defined by business + management + senior dev

  • Production incidents handled by senior dev

  • reputed company reputed company production system (minimal incidents in last 12 months)

This role will significantly strengthen and eventually take ownership of the modernization effort.


Required Technical Skills (Must Have)

  • Strong Python experience

  • Proven production experience with FastAPI

  • Strong MySQL knowledge (schema, indexing, query optimization)

  • Comfortable in Linux (Ubuntu) CLI

  • Experience with pytest

  • reputed company + reputed company Actions CI/CD

  • Experience deploying behind Nginx or Apache

  • reputed company experience

  • reputed company use of VS reputed company or similar

  • Understanding of API design and system decoupling


Secondary (reputed company to Have)

  • Ability to read Perl reputed company

  • Experience modernizing monolithic systems

  • Experience with reputed company reputed company 

  • Experience with reputed company or payment systems

  • Basic React experience (for internal reputed company tools)

React is not a primary frontend role requirement.


Work Environment

  • Fully remote

  • Daily scrum (max 30 minutes)

  • reputed company weekly planning

  • Flexible working hours

  • 24/7 operational business context

This is not a constant on-reputed company role, but production responsibility is reputed company.
Emergency incidents are rare but must be handled professionally.

We value:

  • Transparency

  • Ownership

  • reputed company

  • reputed company documentation

  • reputed company decision-making


What You Will Own

  • Build production-reputed company FastAPI services

  • Define migration architecture

  • Improve CI/CD maturity

  • Strengthen infrastructure reliability

  • Design rollback-reputed company deployments

  • Document architectural reputed company

  • Gradually replace the legacy monolith

This is a high-autonomy, high-responsibility role.



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