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# Senior Backend Engineer (Python/GIS) at Gilytics AG

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 **Gilytics AG**

### About Gilytics

Gilytics is a Swiss geospatial SaaS company. Our platform, Pathfinder, helps utilities, grid operators and infrastructure planners find the best routes and sites for new infrastructure, turning months of manual planning into a data-driven, transparent process. We are a remote-first team of about 26 people across Europe and the Americas.

### The role

We are looking for a Backend Lead to own the server-side engine behind Pathfinder: the geoprocessing, spatial data APIs and backend services our customers rely on. This is a hands-on senior role. Depth of knowledge and an ownership-driven, collaborative attitude matter more to us than years in a management title.

You will report to our CTO, Salvador Bayarri, and work closely with the Frontend, DevOps and GIS Data teams.

### Tasks

### What you will do

- Architect and build the backend data model, REST APIs and services behind Pathfinder
- Develop, optimise and maintain geoprocesses and spatial data functions
- Set backend priorities with the CTO and run agile delivery for the team
- Lead code reviews and set the standards for testing, documentation and security
- ### Mentor and grow backend developers
- Integrate AI into the backend (model endpoints, MCP servers, AI agents) and champion AI-assisted development across the team
- Contribute to product roadmap planning and technical estimation

### Requirements

### What you bring

- 5+ years of professional software development, primarily backend
- Strong Python, including GIS libraries such as GEOS, GDAL/OGR, Shapely or GeoPandas
- Hands-on experience building geospatial applications with PostgreSQL/PostGIS
- A track record of designing and maintaining REST APIs and scalable backend services
- Technical leadership experience: coordinating developers, reviewing code and mentoring, whether or not you held a formal management title
- Good knowledge of Git, automated testing and CI/CD
- ### Professional working English
- A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, GIS/Geoinformatics or similar, or equivalent professional experience

### Nice to have

- ### Django / Django REST Framework
- Geoprocessing pipelines at scale and large spatial datasets
- ### AWS, Docker, Linux
- ### Scrum or other agile delivery experience
- Some proven experience applying AI or GeoAI in a product

### Benefits

### What we offer

- Real ownership of the technical core of a product used by major utilities and grid operators
- Work that matters: Pathfinder helps speed up the infrastructure behind the energy transition
- Flexible hours around CET core time (10:00–15:00), and a choice of hybrid in Valencia or fully remote in Europe
- A small, senior, international team where your decisions ship
- An AI-forward engineering culture, with tooling and time to use it

**Note> Please submit your application in english, applications submitted in other languages will be disregarded**

Originally posted on Himalayas

**Source:** this listing was published by [Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/). [View the original posting and apply](https://himalayas.app/companies/gilytics-ag/jobs/senior-backend-engineer-python-gis) — applications are handled there, not on this site.

To apply for this job please visit [himalayas.app](https://himalayas.app/companies/gilytics-ag/jobs/senior-backend-engineer-python-gis).

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