Backend Engineer

About Brandlight

Brandlight is the leading enterprise AI visibility platform, built to help the world’s leading brands understand, manage, and optimize how they appear across AI-driven search, commerce, and advertising.

As AI rapidly becomes a trillion-dollar marketing and distribution channel, Brandlight is defining the systems that decide what brands are surfaced, trusted, and chosen.

Join our team and help build the next generation of tools shaping the future of brand management in an AI-first world.

About The Role

As a Backend Engineer (Python) at Brandlight, you’ll help scale an enterprise-grade product from strong foundations to massive scale, building production-ready features and infrastructure that grows from hundreds of millions of rows to tens of billions. This role is for a sharp, low-ego engineer who writes clean, readable, boring code, loves debugging, and can ship reliable backend work in a fast-moving team.

Responsibilities

• Build backend features in Python that ship reliably to production.
• Scale services and data flows from millions → tens of billions of rows.
• Take ownership of services, endpoints, and background jobs end-to-end.
• Improve reliability by reducing errors and tightening monitoring.
• Debug complex issues quickly and isolate root causes.
• Work closely with the team to deliver clean, maintainable systems.
  
  

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with strong Python ownership.
• Writes readable, maintainable, production-grade code.
• Strong debugging skills: isolates issues fast and fixes them cleanly.
• Experience building production-ready features in a small, high-ownership team.
• Low ego, team player, high accountability.
• Curious, self-taught (autodidact) mindset.