Mid Full Stack / Backend Engineer

About the role

Location: Ideally Malta; open to anywhere in Europe. Level: Mid/Senior - able to own complex systems end-to-end Type: Permanent Role summary: A backend engineer who thrives in fast-growth environments, owns services end-to-end, and uses agentic development workflows to ship faster. Will work on the core applications powering the business. Responsibilities: Develop and own our core applications - CRM and finance services - for internal and external users. Evaluation criteria (in priority order): 1. Fast-growth / high-performance startup or scaleup experience (highest weight) Has worked at a Series A/B (or comparable) startup through a period of rapid scaling, ideally not just a large, stable org. Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and shipping under pressure without over-engineering. Signals: early/founding engineer roles, "first N engineers," ownership of significant surface area, demonstrable velocity. Be wary of CVs showing only big-company or agency/consultancy backgrounds. 2. Python / FastAPI (must-have) Strong, current production Python with FastAPI specifically. This is a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have. Signals: API design, async Python, building and maint