Senior Python Backend Developer (FastAPI / Celery) - 100% Remote

Senior Python Backend Developer (FastAPI / Celery) Pay rate: $75 $85/hr on C2C Location: 100% Remote (US Nationwide) Duration: 12 Months Engagement: Corp-to-Corp (C2C) Work authorization: USC, GC, H1B, GC-EAD Client: Global media and streaming company (name confidential until shortlisting - standard US staffing practice) What you will do: - Build scalable backend endpoints for content streaming ingestion, asset metadata, and licensing APIs. - Optimize asynchronous workers to handle video transcoding notifications and batch data processing. - Maintain clean test suites using PyTest and enforce PEP-8 standards with automated linters. What you will bring: - 7+ years of software development in Python (Python 3.10+) utilizing FastAPI, Django, or Flask. - Hands-on experience with asynchronous I/O (AsyncIO), Celery task runners, and Redis caching. - Strong background integrating media encoding pipelines, CDN origin APIs, and video metadata catalogs. - Practical knowledge of AWS (ECS, SQS, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL). Interview process: screening call with our recruitment team, then client interview rounds (video). Posted November 2026. Apply with your resume at - mention the role title. No fee is ever charged to candidates.