Back-end Software Engineer (Contract) Property Guys
I am the sole backend and infrastructure engineer for a Spanish proptech startup operating a production real-estate platform with more than 100,000 listings aggregated from approximately 1,000 agency websites. I own the FastAPI REST API, crawlers, servers, deployments, PostgreSQL database, and infrastructure while collaborating in a remote English-speaking Scrum team.
I reduced homepage load time by 84% and improved search performance to approximately 250 ms per page through B-tree and GiST spatial indexes, materialized views, N+1 query fixes, and SQL-based ranking. I migrated production from Azure to Hetzner, reducing hosting costs by about 75%, improved security by resolving SQL injection, account-takeover, and user-enumeration vulnerabilities, and introduced CI/CD, backups, tests, protected branches, and automatic rollback. I also built Stripe subscriptions, Mapbox and LLM integrations, and consolidated crawler systems with data-quality controls.