Backend Engineer

Newfold Digital is hiring a Backend Engineer to scale services supporting Bluehost’s core hosting products and millions of small-business websites. The role owns Python backend features and internal APIs, maintains Linux and MySQL production systems, contributes to modernization of legacy code, and participates in technical decisions and production troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain backend services and internal APIs in Python, with ownership over the features you ship

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 working through unfamiliar code — and review what it generates before it ships, checking provenance and licensing of generated snippets

Ship reliable, well-tested features in partnership with senior engineers and cross-functional teams

Work across both legacy and modern codebases, including Perl-based components where applicable, contributing to their gradual modernization

Weigh in on technical design decisions and help shape how legacy systems get modernized, rather than just executing tickets

Own production troubleshooting and carry on-call rotation as needed, learning incident response practices along the way

Preferred

familiarity with **Perl** and with **cPanel** environments is beneficial but not required

Perl

cPanel

Benefits

Work-life balance and a culture that respects your time.

20+ affinity groups connecting employees globally.

Excellent Health coverage.

HSA.

Dental coverage.

Vision coverage.

Matching 401K.

Life/AD&D/STD/LTD insurance.

Tuition Reimbursement.

Pet Insurance.

Generous PTO.

Mentorship.

New challenges and real career growth.

Company

Web presence solutions and hosting for businesses globally

Jacksonville, Florida, USA

https://newfold.com/

Founded in 1999

1001-5000 employees

Qualifications

3-5 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

AI-augmented delivery: you use AI across the delivery lifecycle, not just code generation, and can say which models suit which problems and where you don't use them. You review AI-generated code knowing its failure modes, and you work within clear boundaries for what customer data enters a prompt and what a security or compliance review will ask for

Experience working in a collaborative, Agile development environment with real sprint and release discipline

Demonstrated troubleshooting instincts and ownership of production issues under pressure, including as a front-line responder

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

Required skills

Python, Linux Systems Administration, MySQL, AI-Assisted Software Development, Agile Software Development, Production Incident Response, Perl, cPanel

Experience

3-5 years