Backend Engineer

Summary

Newfold Digital, through its Bluehost platform, provides hosting and online growth tools for small businesses. The Backend Engineer will develop and maintain Python backend services and internal APIs, administer Linux production systems, optimize MySQL databases, support legacy modernization, and participate in production troubleshooting and on-call responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and internal APIs in Python, with ownership over the features you ship
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based production systems, including performance tuning and root-cause investigation
• Write, optimize, and maintain MySQL queries and schemas against high-traffic, production-scale data
• Use AI across the delivery lifecycle — development, debugging, tests, and working through unfamiliar code — and review what it generates before it ships, checking provenance and licensing of generated snippets
• Ship reliable, well-tested features in partnership with senior engineers and cross-functional teams
• Work across both legacy and modern codebases, including Perl-based components where applicable, contributing to their gradual modernization
• Weigh in on technical design decisions and help shape how legacy systems get modernized, rather than just executing tickets
• Own production troubleshooting and carry on-call rotation as needed, learning incident response practices along the way

Skills

• 3-5 years of backend development experience
• Strong working knowledge of Python and Linux systems administration
• Solid MySQL experience: writing queries, designing schemas, and diagnosing performance issues
• AI-augmented delivery: you use AI across the delivery lifecycle, not just code generation, and can say which models suit which problems and where you don't use them. You review AI-generated code knowing its failure modes, and you work within clear boundaries for what customer data enters a prompt and what a security or compliance review will ask for
• Experience working in a collaborative, Agile development environment with real sprint and release discipline
• Demonstrated troubleshooting instincts and ownership of production issues under pressure, including as a front-line responder
• Bonus: familiarity with Perl and with cPanel environments is beneficial but not required

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 3-5 years of backend development experience
• Strong working knowledge of Python and Linux systems administration
• Solid MySQL experience: writing queries, designing schemas, and diagnosing performance issues
• AI-augmented delivery: you use AI across the delivery lifecycle, not just code generation, and can say which models suit which problems and where you don't use them. You review AI-generated code knowing its failure modes, and you work within clear boundaries for what customer data enters a prompt and what a security or compliance review will ask for
• Experience working in a collaborative, Agile development environment with real sprint and release discipline
• Demonstrated troubleshooting instincts and ownership of production issues under pressure, including as a front-line responder

Nice to Haves

• Bonus: familiarity with Perl and with cPanel environments is beneficial but not required

Benefits

• Work-life balance and a culture that respects your time.
• 20+ affinity groups connecting employees globally.
• Health insurance
• HSA
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Matching 401(k)
• Life, AD&D, STD, and LTD insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Pet insurance
• Generous PTO
• Mentorship, new challenges, and real career growth