Software Engineer - Backend (Python)

🚀 Full Stack Engineer 2 |
SALARY: PHP 130,000 - 150,000 per month plus 30% night differential
Makati, Philippines | Pax8
The role will be on a Permanent Night Shift Schedule (10pm - 6am)
Pax8 is hiring a Full Stack Engineer 2 in Makati, Philippines to help shape the future of billing intelligence, automation, and observability within one of the world's leading AI-powered cloud marketplaces.
🌟 Build the Future of Marketplace Operations
Join a team where engineering excellence meets real business impact. As a Full Stack Engineer 2 within Marketplace Operations, you'll design systems that improve accuracy, scalability, and resilience across a global cloud marketplace. This is an opportunity to solve complex challenges using automation, data engineering, observability, and modern cloud technologies while growing alongside emerging AI-driven technologies and innovation.
You'll work at the intersection of Engineering, Product, Finance, and Operations, building tools that power smarter decisions, reduce operational friction, and prevent issues before they happen.
🌍 Why Pax8?
Pax8 is transforming the way technology is bought, sold, and managed. Our AI-powered marketplace connects managed service providers, vendors, and small businesses through intelligent automation and cloud innovation.
Learn more about our journey, culture, and impact through Pax8's global success stories, marketplace innovation initiatives, and award-winning workplace culture. If you thrive in environments where curiosity, ownership, collaboration, and innovation are celebrated, you'll feel right at home here.
🔧 What You'll Be Doing
Build end-to-end observability and automation tooling that enhances visibility, efficiency, and accuracy in the monthly billing run (spanning the 1st–7th of each month).
Write and maintain Python services and data workflows that analyze and act on financial and subscription data at scale.
Design and maintain full stack solutions (dashboards, APIs, automation scripts, alerting pipelines) that surface actionable insights to technical and operational stakeholders.
Serve as the technical mentor and coach to other Marketplace Operation’s team members, guiding architectural decisions, code quality, and best practices in observability and automation.
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in Engineering, Product, Support and Finance to solve systemic billing issues and build durable solutions.
Translate recurring operational pain points into scalable tools, enabling proactive monitoring and self-service troubleshooting for billing data anomalies.
Contribute to root cause investigations using a combination of SQL, Python, and systems-level thinking.
Provide calm, measured support during high-stakes incident response windows and act as a steady technical leader during retrospectives and resolution planning.
🎯 Your Impact
Your work will directly influence how Pax8 manages billions of marketplace transactions, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and confidence throughout the billing lifecycle. You'll create solutions that empower teams, improve partner experiences, and reduce operational complexity at scale.
Success in this role means transforming recurring challenges into intelligent systems that continuously improve how the business operates.
⭐ What Makes You a Great Fit
You'll be successful in this role if you bring:
3+ years of experience as a full stack engineer or software developer, with a strong focus on backend systems and data-rich applications.
Proficiency in Python and SQL (both required), with experience building services and working with data pipelines or automation tools.Knowledge or understanding basic data modelling concepts
Cloud data warehouse experience (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, or equivalent)
Orchestration awareness (Airflow, Argo or similar): reading DAG status, distinguishing run success vs test health
Basic CI familiarity (linting, PR checks) for analytics code
Experience handling large-scale financial or subscription datasets.
Knowledge using Jira, Kubernetes and Docker tooling in addition to AWS is a plus.
Strong understanding of observability principles, including metrics, logging, alerting, and system health tracking.
Experience building internal tools, operational dashboards, and BI tools (e.g., using frameworks like dbt, PowerBI, Streamlit, or similar).
Proven ability to work cross-functionally with analysts, operations, and product teams to design scalable technical solutions to business problems.
Clear and patient communicator who can bridge the gap between technical complexity and operational needs.
Comfort navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful trade-offs to deliver incremental value while moving toward long-term solutions.
🔒 Trust and Hiring
At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust based relationships — starting with how we hire.
To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change. By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you're applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we're excited to meet you.
We also use thoughtfully applied AI-enabled tools to support our hiring process. These tools may assist with tasks such as reviewing or prioritising applications, but hiring decisions are made by our people. More information is available in our Recruitment Privacy Notice. If you have questions about how we hire or would prefer not to have your application supported by these tools, you can opt out at any part of our process.
🌈 Everyone Is Welcome Here
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet 100% of the criteria. We're committed to diverse perspectives, inclusive hiring and sharing your transferrable skills. To fulfil this role, you must hold valid right to work in Philippines.
🎁 Benefits
Salary: Competitive and dependent on experience
20 Annual Leaves (accruing monthly)
Pax8 offers an additional 10 days of bonus leave every year. And yes, the 10 days are available from your first day.
Private Health Insurance.
Unlimited growth through our learning & development (L&D) programs in an environment that fosters internal promotions, helping you gain the necessary skills to reach the next step in your professional journey.
Connecting with our community is important, which is why we have our donation matching program, DEI-B events, and employee resource groups to ensure everyone feels at home at Pax8.
🏢 Our Makati Office
Pax8 Manila Office Environment
Energetic office located at KMC Solutions, One Ayala Mall, Makati City
Dedicated Pax8 Lounge Area overlooking Makati Avenue
Relaxation area with massage chairs
Fully stocked pantry cabinet
Weekly treats including Monday waffles and Thursday soft serve ice cream
Regular team events including Pax8 Thursday Karaoke
Coffee machines
Modern workstations equipped with monitors and essential productivity tools
Great office culture
📈 Growth Without Limits
There's extensive room for a talented individual to grow at pace — whether that's advancing quickly in this role or exploring one of the many opportunities across our global organisation. You'll have access to our internal development hub designed to accelerate your skills and stretch your potential. Alongside specialist Learning & Development trainers, you'll also tap into AI powered tools, "born in the cloud" mentors, and cross continent collaboration that broaden your perspective and sharpen your expertise. We'll give you the space, trust, and the right projects to help you thrive — and full visibility of what it takes to reach your next level.
🚀 About Pax8
Our mission is to build the managed intelligence marketplace and empower small businesses to do more with smarter technology. We are a fast-growing, dynamic, and high-energy organisation with a start-up feel, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the business. Culture is also important to us, and at Pax8, it's business, and it IS personal. We are passionate, creative, and unconventional. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best! We Elev8 each other. We Advoc8 for our partners. We Innov8 continuou