diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e8305c9d..c35f2162 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ run-client:
 run-server:
 	cd fittrackee_api && $(GUNICORN) -b 127.0.0.1:5000 "fittrackee_api:create_app()" --error-logfile ../gunicorn-error.log
 
+run-workers:
+	$(FLASK) worker --processes=1
+
 serve-python:
 	$(FLASK) run --with-threads -h $(HOST) -p $(API_PORT)
 
diff --git a/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/__init__.py b/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/__init__.py
index 7824bdd4..fbd68fd4 100644
--- a/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/__init__.py
+++ b/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/__init__.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from importlib import import_module, reload
 
 from flask import Flask
 from flask_bcrypt import Bcrypt
+from flask_dramatiq import Dramatiq
 from flask_migrate import Migrate
 from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
 
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ db = SQLAlchemy()
 bcrypt = Bcrypt()
 migrate = Migrate()
 email_service = Email()
+dramatiq = Dramatiq()
 appLog = logging.getLogger('fittrackee_api')
 
 
@@ -33,6 +35,7 @@ def create_app():
     db.init_app(app)
     bcrypt.init_app(app)
     migrate.init_app(app, db)
+    dramatiq.init_app(app)
 
     # set up email
     email_service.init_email(app)
diff --git a/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/config.py b/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/config.py
index 9ed95d8a..7f04c29c 100644
--- a/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/config.py
+++ b/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/config.py
@@ -1,7 +1,15 @@
 import os
 
+from dramatiq.brokers.redis import RedisBroker
+from dramatiq.brokers.stub import StubBroker
 from flask import current_app
 
+if os.getenv('APP_SETTINGS') == 'fittrackee_api.config.Testing':
+    broker = StubBroker
+    broker.emit_after("process_boot")
+else:
+    broker = RedisBroker
+
 
 class BaseConfig:
     """Base configuration"""
@@ -20,6 +28,7 @@ class BaseConfig:
     UI_URL = os.environ.get('UI_URL')
     EMAIL_URL = os.environ.get('EMAIL_URL')
     SENDER_EMAIL = os.environ.get('SENDER_EMAIL')
+    DRAMATIQ_BROKER = broker
 
 
 class DevelopmentConfig(BaseConfig):
@@ -31,6 +40,7 @@ class DevelopmentConfig(BaseConfig):
     USERNAME = 'admin'
     PASSWORD = 'default'
     BCRYPT_LOG_ROUNDS = 4
+    DRAMATIQ_BROKER_URL = os.getenv('REDIS_URL', 'redis://')
 
 
 class TestingConfig(BaseConfig):
diff --git a/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/tasks.py b/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/tasks.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8ea0f363
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/tasks.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+from fittrackee_api import dramatiq, email_service
+
+
+@dramatiq.actor()
+def reset_password_email(user, email_data):
+    email_service.send(
+        template='password_reset_request',
+        lang=user['language'],
+        recipient=user['email'],
+        data=email_data,
+    )
diff --git a/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/tests/conftest.py b/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/tests/conftest.py
index c870d6cf..12c55a9b 100644
--- a/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/tests/conftest.py
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ from fittrackee_api.application.models import AppConfig
 from fittrackee_api.application.utils import update_app_config_from_database
 from fittrackee_api.users.models import User
 
-os.environ["FLASK_ENV"] = 'testing'
-os.environ["APP_SETTINGS"] = 'fittrackee_api.config.TestingConfig'
+os.environ['FLASK_ENV'] = 'testing'
+os.environ['APP_SETTINGS'] = 'fittrackee_api.config.TestingConfig'
 # to avoid resetting dev database during tests
-os.environ["DATABASE_URL"] = os.getenv("DATABASE_TEST_URL")
+os.environ['DATABASE_URL'] = os.getenv('DATABASE_TEST_URL')
 
 
 def get_app_config(with_config=False):
diff --git a/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/users/auth.py b/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/users/auth.py
index 40ae317f..42cd6e98 100644
--- a/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/users/auth.py
+++ b/fittrackee_api/fittrackee_api/users/auth.py
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ import datetime
 import os
 
 import jwt
-from fittrackee_api import appLog, bcrypt, db, email_service
+from fittrackee_api import appLog, bcrypt, db
+from fittrackee_api.tasks import reset_password_email
 from flask import Blueprint, current_app, jsonify, request
 from sqlalchemy import exc, or_
 from werkzeug.exceptions import RequestEntityTooLarge
@@ -712,12 +713,11 @@ def request_password_reset():
             'operating_system': request.user_agent.platform,
             'browser_name': request.user_agent.browser,
         }
-        email_service.send(
-            template='password_reset_request',
-            lang=user.language if user.language else 'en',
-            recipient=user.email,
-            data=email_data,
-        )
+        user_data = {
+            'language': user.language if user.language else 'en',
+            'email': user.email,
+        }
+        reset_password_email.send(user_data, email_data)
     response_object = {
         'status': 'success',
         'message': 'Password reset request processed.',
diff --git a/fittrackee_api/poetry.lock b/fittrackee_api/poetry.lock
index 1b15e4f4..417342a9 100644
--- a/fittrackee_api/poetry.lock
+++ b/fittrackee_api/poetry.lock
@@ -205,6 +205,29 @@ optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*"
 version = "0.16"
 
+[[package]]
+category = "main"
+description = "Background Processing for Python 3."
+name = "dramatiq"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.5"
+version = "1.9.0"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+prometheus-client = ">=0.2"
+
+[package.dependencies.redis]
+optional = true
+version = ">=2.0,<4.0"
+
+[package.extras]
+all = ["watchdog-gevent (0.1)", "watchdog (>=0.8,<0.9)", "pylibmc (>=1.5,<2.0)", "pika (>=1.0,<2.0)", "redis (>=2.0,<4.0)"]
+dev = ["watchdog-gevent (0.1)", "watchdog (>=0.8,<0.9)", "pylibmc (>=1.5,<2.0)", "pika (>=1.0,<2.0)", "redis (>=2.0,<4.0)", "alabaster", "sphinx (<1.8)", "sphinxcontrib-napoleon", "flake8", "flake8-bugbear", "flake8-quotes", "isort", "bumpversion", "hiredis", "twine", "wheel", "pytest (<4)", "pytest-benchmark", "pytest-cov", "tox"]
+memcached = ["pylibmc (>=1.5,<2.0)"]
+rabbitmq = ["pika (>=1.0,<2.0)"]
+redis = ["redis (>=2.0,<4.0)"]
+watch = ["watchdog (>=0.8,<0.9)", "watchdog-gevent (0.1)"]
+
 [[package]]
 category = "dev"
 description = "the modular source code checker: pep8 pyflakes and co"
@@ -253,6 +276,17 @@ version = "0.7.1"
 Flask = "*"
 bcrypt = "*"
 
+[[package]]
+category = "main"
+description = "Adds Dramatiq support to your Flask application"
+name = "flask-dramatiq"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6,<4.0"
+version = "0.6.0"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+dramatiq = ">=1.5,<2.0"
+
 [[package]]
 category = "main"
 description = "SQLAlchemy database migrations for Flask applications using Alembic"
@@ -475,6 +509,17 @@ version = ">=0.12"
 [package.extras]
 dev = ["pre-commit", "tox"]
 
+[[package]]
+category = "main"
+description = "Python client for the Prometheus monitoring system."
+name = "prometheus-client"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+version = "0.8.0"
+
+[package.extras]
+twisted = ["twisted"]
+
 [[package]]
 category = "main"
 description = "psycopg2 - Python-PostgreSQL Database Adapter"
@@ -708,6 +753,17 @@ commonmark = ">=0.8.1"
 docutils = ">=0.11"
 sphinx = ">=1.3.1"
 
+[[package]]
+category = "main"
+description = "Python client for Redis key-value store"
+name = "redis"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*"
+version = "3.5.3"
+
+[package.extras]
+hiredis = ["hiredis (>=0.1.3)"]
+
 [[package]]
 category = "dev"
 description = "Alternative regular expression module, to replace re."
@@ -997,7 +1053,7 @@ docs = ["sphinx", "jaraco.packaging (>=3.2)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)"]
 testing = ["jaraco.itertools", "func-timeout"]
 
 [metadata]
-content-hash = "a9201e432af36210daf0112aafdd4bc39ba5a7299f4010bf4919c85340ab40b9"
+content-hash = "b8d219c99cac540afe974e9170fad8b4b0e1cd726148389edfcf29e2233cc121"
 python-versions = "^3.7"
 
 [metadata.files]
@@ -1163,6 +1219,10 @@ docutils = [
     {file = "docutils-0.16-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:0c5b78adfbf7762415433f5515cd5c9e762339e23369dbe8000d84a4bf4ab3af"},
     {file = "docutils-0.16.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:c2de3a60e9e7d07be26b7f2b00ca0309c207e06c100f9cc2a94931fc75a478fc"},
 ]
+dramatiq = [
+    {file = "dramatiq-1.9.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:360cd436a434a513c87a9769943543c1d065835e3fa0b01f96c4fdd959bfa1c3"},
+    {file = "dramatiq-1.9.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:8112941ab2eda4f0288bacd137a991f9b1b1c600fe3dd5960eaba4256c873839"},
+]
 flake8 = [
     {file = "flake8-3.8.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:15e351d19611c887e482fb960eae4d44845013cc142d42896e9862f775d8cf5c"},
     {file = "flake8-3.8.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:f04b9fcbac03b0a3e58c0ab3a0ecc462e023a9faf046d57794184028123aa208"},
@@ -1174,6 +1234,10 @@ flask = [
 flask-bcrypt = [
     {file = "Flask-Bcrypt-0.7.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:d71c8585b2ee1c62024392ebdbc447438564e2c8c02b4e57b56a4cafd8d13c5f"},
 ]
+flask-dramatiq = [
+    {file = "flask-dramatiq-0.6.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:63709e73d7c8d2e5d9bc554d1e859d91c5c5c9a4ebc9461752655bf1e0b87420"},
+    {file = "flask_dramatiq-0.6.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:7d4a9289721577f726183f7c44c6713a16bbdff54b946f27abc2ffcc65768adf"},
+]
 flask-migrate = [
     {file = "Flask-Migrate-2.5.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:a69d508c2e09d289f6e55a417b3b8c7bfe70e640f53d2d9deb0d056a384f37ee"},
     {file = "Flask_Migrate-2.5.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4dc4a5cce8cbbb06b8dc963fd86cf8136bd7d875aabe2d840302ea739b243732"},
@@ -1308,6 +1372,10 @@ pluggy = [
     {file = "pluggy-0.13.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:966c145cd83c96502c3c3868f50408687b38434af77734af1e9ca461a4081d2d"},
     {file = "pluggy-0.13.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:15b2acde666561e1298d71b523007ed7364de07029219b604cf808bfa1c765b0"},
 ]
+prometheus-client = [
+    {file = "prometheus_client-0.8.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:983c7ac4b47478720db338f1491ef67a100b474e3bc7dafcbaefb7d0b8f9b01c"},
+    {file = "prometheus_client-0.8.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:c6e6b706833a6bd1fd51711299edee907857be10ece535126a158f911ee80915"},
+]
 psycopg2-binary = [
     {file = "psycopg2-binary-2.8.5.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:ccdc6a87f32b491129ada4b87a43b1895cf2c20fdb7f98ad979647506ffc41b6"},
     {file = "psycopg2_binary-2.8.5-cp27-cp27m-macosx_10_6_intel.macosx_10_9_intel.macosx_10_9_x86_64.macosx_10_10_intel.macosx_10_10_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:96d3038f5bd061401996614f65d27a4ecb62d843eb4f48e212e6d129171a721f"},
@@ -1417,6 +1485,10 @@ recommonmark = [
     {file = "recommonmark-0.6.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:2ec4207a574289355d5b6ae4ae4abb29043346ca12cdd5f07d374dc5987d2852"},
     {file = "recommonmark-0.6.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:29cd4faeb6c5268c633634f2d69aef9431e0f4d347f90659fd0aab20e541efeb"},
 ]
+redis = [
+    {file = "redis-3.5.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:432b788c4530cfe16d8d943a09d40ca6c16149727e4afe8c2c9d5580c59d9f24"},
+    {file = "redis-3.5.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:0e7e0cfca8660dea8b7d5cd8c4f6c5e29e11f31158c0b0ae91a397f00e5a05a2"},
+]
 regex = [
     {file = "regex-2020.6.8-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl", hash = "sha256:fbff901c54c22425a5b809b914a3bfaf4b9570eee0e5ce8186ac71eb2025191c"},
     {file = "regex-2020.6.8-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:112e34adf95e45158c597feea65d06a8124898bdeac975c9087fe71b572bd938"},
diff --git a/fittrackee_api/pyproject.toml b/fittrackee_api/pyproject.toml
index 2833136e..92dbb8d2 100644
--- a/fittrackee_api/pyproject.toml
+++ b/fittrackee_api/pyproject.toml
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ python-forecastio = "^1.4"
 gunicorn = "^20.0"
 tqdm = "^4.42"
 humanize = "^2.5.0"
+dramatiq = {extras = ["redis"], version = "^1.9.0"}
+flask-dramatiq = "^0.6.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 black = "^19.10b0"