Software Engineer - Backend (Python)

🚀 Full Stack Engineer 2 | Makati, Philippines | Pax8 Pax8 is hiring a Full Stack Engineer 2 in Makati, Philippines to help shape the future of billing intelligence, automation, and observability within one of the world's leading AI-powered cloud marketplaces. 🌟 Build the Future of Marketplace Operations Join a team where engineering excellence meets real business impact. As a Full Stack Engineer 2 within Marketplace Operations, you'll design systems that improve accuracy, scalability, and resilience across a global cloud marketplace. This is an opportunity to solve complex challenges using automation, data engineering, observability, and modern cloud technologies while growing alongside emerging AI-driven technologies and innovation. You'll work at the intersection of Engineering, Product, Finance, and Operations, building tools that power smarter decisions, reduce operational friction, and prevent issues before they happen. 🌍 Why Pax8? Pax8 is transforming the way technology is bought, sold, and managed. Our AI-powered marketplace connects managed service providers, vendors, and small businesses through intelligent automation and cloud innovation. Learn more about our journey, culture, and impact through Pax8's global success stories, marketplace innovation initiatives, and award-winning workplace culture. If you thrive in environments where curiosity, ownership, collaboration, and innovation are celebrated, you'll feel right at home here. 🔧 What You'll Be Doing 📊 Engineer Better Visibility Develop intelligent observability platforms that provide deep insight into billing performance, subscription activity, and operational health. Create dashboards, alerts, and monitoring solutions that help teams identify issues before they impact partners or customers. ⚙️ Automate Critical Processes Design automation tools that remove manual effort, increase efficiency, and improve accuracy across large-scale billing operations. Build systems that proactively identify anomalies and drive self-service troubleshooting capabilities. 💻 Build End-to-End Solutions Develop scalable full-stack applications, APIs, services, and data workflows using modern engineering practices. Create intuitive user experiences that help technical and operational teams make faster, more informed decisions. 🤝 Partner Across the Business Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Finance, Support, and Operations teams to solve meaningful business challenges. Translate operational insights into sustainable technology solutions that drive long-term value. 🧠 Lead Through Expertise Mentor fellow team members through technical guidance, coaching, and engineering best practices. Contribute to architectural discussions and help shape the future direction of Marketplace Operations tooling. 🔍 Solve Complex Problems Investigate root causes behind operational and billing issues using data, systems thinking, and engineering expertise. Support critical business periods with calm, thoughtful problem solving and continuous improvement. 🎯 Your Impact Your work will directly influence how Pax8 manages billions of marketplace transactions, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and confidence throughout the billing lifecycle. You'll create solutions that empower teams, improve partner experiences, and reduce operational complexity at scale. Success in this role means transforming recurring challenges into intelligent systems that continuously improve how the business operates. ⭐ What Makes You a Great Fit You'll be successful in this role if you bring: Demonstrated experience building modern full-stack applications with a strong emphasis on backend engineering. Significant expertise with Python and SQL for application development, automation, and data processing. Proven experience working with large, complex datasets where accuracy and reliability are critical. Strong knowledge of cloud-native technologies, containerisation, and modern deployment practices. Practical experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, JavaScript, and related engineering tools. A solid understanding of observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and system health practices. Experience building internal platforms, operational dashboards, automation tools, or data-driven applications. The ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. A thoughtful approach to delivering incremental value while balancing long-term technical strategy. A collaborative mindset with a passion for mentoring others and solving meaningful business problems. 🔒 Trust and Hiring At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust based relationships — starting with how we hire. To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change. By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you're applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we're excited to meet you. We also use thoughtfully applied AI-enabled tools to support our hiring process. These tools may assist with tasks such as reviewing or prioritising applications, but hiring decisions are made by our people. More information is available in our Recruitment Privacy Notice. If you have questions about how we hire or would prefer not to have your application supported by these tools, you can opt out at any part of our process. 🌈 Everyone Is Welcome Here We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet 100% of the criteria. We're committed to diverse perspectives, inclusive hiring and sharing your transferrable skills. To fulfil this role, you must hold valid right to work in Philippines. 🎁 Benefits Salary: Competitive and dependent on experience 20 Annual Leaves (accruing monthly) Pax8 offers an additional 10 days of bonus leave every year. And yes, the 10 days are available from your first day. Private Health Insurance. Unlimited growth through our learning & development (L&D) programs in an environment that fosters internal promotions, helping you gain the necessary skills to reach the next step in your professional journey. Connecting with our community is important, which is why we have our donation matching program, DEI-B events, and employee resource groups to ensure everyone feels at home at Pax8. 🏢 Our Makati Office Pax8 Manila Office Environment Energetic office located at KMC Solutions, One Ayala Mall, Makati City Dedicated Pax8 Lounge Area overlooking Makati Avenue Relaxation area with massage chairs Fully stocked pantry cabinet Weekly treats including Monday waffles and Thursday soft serve ice cream Regular team events including Pax8 Thursday Karaoke Coffee machines Modern workstations equipped with monitors and essential productivity tools Great office culture 📈 Growth Without Limits There's extensive room for a talented individual to grow at pace — whether that's advancing quickly in this role or exploring one of the many opportunities across our global organisation. You'll have access to our internal development hub designed to accelerate your skills and stretch your potential. Alongside specialist Learning & Development trainers, you'll also tap into AI powered tools, "born in the cloud" mentors, and cross continent collaboration that broaden your perspective and sharpen your expertise. We'll give you the space, trust, and the right projects to help you thrive — and full visibility of what it takes to reach your next level. 🚀 About Pax8 Our mission is to build the managed intelligence marketplace and empower small businesses to do more with smarter technology. We are a fast-growing, dynamic, and high-energy organisation with a start-up feel, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the business. Culture is also important to us, and at Pax8, it's business, and it IS personal. We are passionate, creative, and unconventional. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best! We Elev8 each other. We Advoc8 for our partners. We Innov8 continuously. We Celebr8 life. ✅ Background Checks As part of our hiring process, we are required to undertake pre-employment checks on all candidates that are successful in their application with Pax8. As part of these checks Pax8 will request ID verification, reference requests and qualification checks (additional checks may be completed for certain countries, such as criminal and financial). All checks are completed by our third-party provider, First Advantage. Once checks have been completed all candidates will receive a copy for their records. Equal Opportunities Pax8 are an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the country you have applied for. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with local best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes. 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