WIP checkpoint: Scaffold FastAPI backend project structure

backend/app/database.py

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+"""Async database engine and session factory."""
+
+from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import (
+    AsyncSession,
+    async_sessionmaker,
+    create_async_engine,
+)
+from sqlalchemy.orm import DeclarativeBase
+
+from app.config import settings
+
+engine = create_async_engine(
+    settings.database_url,
+    echo=settings.DEBUG,
+    pool_size=10,
+    max_overflow=20,
+)
+
+async_session_factory = async_sessionmaker(
+    engine,
+    class_=AsyncSession,
+    expire_on_commit=False,
+)
+
+
+class Base(DeclarativeBase):
+    pass
+
+
+async def get_db() -> AsyncSession:
+    """Dependency that yields an async database session."""
+    async with async_session_factory() as session:
+        try:
+            yield session
+            await session.commit()
+        except Exception:
+            await session.rollback()
+            raise