Backend Engineer

About the Role

At Bluehost (part of Newfold Digital), we believe all small businesses deserve the opportunity to succeed online. Our mission is to give small businesses the confidence to think big as an all-in-one platform for growth with powerful simplicity, premium performance, smart tools and human support.

Why We're Hiring

To help scale the services behind Bluehost's core hosting products supporting millions of small-business websites. You'll own backend features in Python on Linux backed by MySQL with real say in how we modernize this platform and input on technical decisions. Perl and cPanel knowledge is a plus but not required.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and internal APIs in Python with ownership over shipped features.
• 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 review code generated by AI checking provenance and licensing before shipping.
• Ship reliable well tested features in partnership with senior engineers and cross functional teams.
• Work across legacy and modern codebases including Perl based components contributing to gradual modernization.
• Weigh in on technical design decisions helping shape how legacy systems get modernized rather than just executing tickets.
• Own production troubleshooting carry on call rotation as needed learning incident response practices along the way.

You & Requirements

• 3 to 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.
• Augmented delivery using AI across the lifecycle knowing which models suit problems where not to use them reviewing generated code understanding failure modes adhering to boundaries for customer data in prompts respecting security compliance reviews.
• Experience working collaboratively in Agile environments with sprint release discipline.
• Demonstrated troubleshooting instincts ownership of production issues under pressure as a front line responder.

Bonus

Familiarity with Perl and cPanel environments is beneficial but not required.