About Fresco
Fresco is a smart kitchen platform trusted by leading appliance brands around the world to build and scale connected cooking experiences. Our platform helps brands launch faster, deliver better experiences for home cooks, and accelerate their digital transformation.
Our mission is to empower anyone to cook delicious food.
About the Role
Fresco is looking for a Backend Engineer to work on our kitchen platform: the Fresco KitchenOS to deliver delightful experiences to our users.
Reporting to the Engineering Manager for Platform & Firmware, you will building platform capabilities and supporting production operations.
Your Responsibilities
- Develop reliable and scalable backend services on Python for our IoT devices and mobile clients across ~20 Lambda-based microservices (Python 3.14, AWS CDK, aws-lambda-powertools) covering device control, cooking sessions, media, recipes, auth, AI and more
- Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle
- Execute cloud to cloud integrations with new partners
- Be on shift looking after the platform, frequency:
1 week every 4-5 weeks (Remunerated).
- Stay up-to-date with innovations and changes in the industry
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years building backend services in Python
- Strong grasp of event-driven architecture: EventBridge, SQS/SNS, async patterns
- AWS Lambda + CDK in production — not just familiarity
- Observability: structured logging, distributed tracing (Datadog or equivalent)
- You ship faster because of AI, not despite learning it. Code gen, debugging, log analysis, test scaffolding — you've replaced slow loops with AI-assisted ones.
- Fluent in English; clear communicator with both technical peers and less-technical stakeholders
Nice to Have
- Comfortable with: Pydantic v2, SQLModel/Alembic, DynamoDB/PynamoDB, Valkey, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
- Testing: BDD (Behave/Gherkin), pytest, moto for AWS mocking
- AWS IoT Core experience a strong plus
- Bachelor's degree in a related
📌 Backend Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 Fresco
📍 Madrid