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Python · Senior · System design

Design a background job system for a Python backend: sending emails, webhooks to partners, nightly recalculations. What would you choose, why, and how would you make it reliable?

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The interviewer wants to see whether you can go beyond naming Celery and design a reliable background job pipeline: understand at-least-once delivery and its consequences (idempotency, acks_late), consistency with the database, workload isolation and operations.

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