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 maintaining services in production. Adjacent data/persistence experience (SQL, ORMs) a plus. 3. Strong agentic workflows / development optimisation - Actively uses AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) as a core part of how they work, not as an occasional aid. - Thinks about optimising their own and the team's development workflow - tooling, automation, spec-driven development. - Signals: mentions of agentic/AI-native development, internal tooling, DX improvements, side projects built with agents, relevant OSS contributions (MCP, agent frameworks). Recency matters - this should be current, not aspirational. Ownership of quality (baseline expectation): - Used to owning their own testing and quality - writes and maintains their own tests, doesn't rely on a separate QA function to catch issues. - Signals: testing discipline, test coverage ownership, "you build it, you run it" cultures. Disqualifiers / flags: - No FastAPI / weak Python. - Based outside Europe. - Purely frontend focus with no backend service ownership. - No evidence of the scaleup or agentic criteria. Levels is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of background, and we're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.