Backend Engineer

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to contribute to our new product efforts and help us take ideas to market, specifically in fintech and payments. Our stack is based on Django, Angular, Postgres, and AWS. Expertise in Django is a must. Planning, shipping, and learning are the most important traits we are looking for.

Responsibilities:

• Discuss, plan, build, and test new features.
• Bring in learnings from your previous roles and experiences to help build exciting new fintech innovations for businesses everywhere.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and other stakeholders in defining the user experience.
• Triage and fix bugs, often working directly with users.
• Manage code reviews through pull requests and make sure we're moving fast while maintaining unit tests and quality.
• Help migrate some of the modules into independent microservices.
• Work on product features that affect 10s of thousands of customers.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience working on web applications using modern software engineering processes.
• Proficient in Python and Django.
• Debugging complex database performance issues.
• You think critically about your work and ask questions to improve the product, not only on its technical implementation but also on how well it's serving the users' needs.
• You have built performant and scalable backends, made pragmatic tradeoffs, and can point to your prior work.
• You have strong communication skills and can explain complex technical topics to the entire team clearly and concisely.
• When things inevitably break, you eagerly jump in to diagnose and fix the core issues.
• Experience working in an early-stage startup is a huge plus.

Nice to have:

• AWS DevOps.
• Product sense.
• Fintech / Accounting experience.
• ERP/accounting systems integration experience.

Skills

backend, django, python