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You'll build systems that are scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant, working directly with product, design, and fellow engineers to turn messy financial problems into software people can actually use.\nResponsibilities:\nDesign, build, and own APIs and backend services in Python that are scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant and hold up under real financial data and load.\nOwn data modeling and integrations: work with the Account Aggregator framework and other financial data rails (CAS parsing, MFCentral, broker, and AMC integrations) to bring a client's complete financial picture into the product.\nBuild and operate the infrastructure your services run on, which is on AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS/Postgres, S3, Lambdas, and DynamoDB), and treat reliability, observability, and security as part of the feature, not an afterthought.\nShip features end-to-end: when work reaches the React / Next.js or React Native frontends, you take it there too. The backend is your center of gravity, but you won't be boxed into one layer.\nPartner closely with product, design, and fellow engineers, challenging requirements and design decisions when they don't hold up, and shipping better work because of it.\nKeep the codebase healthy: right-size your work into reviewable increments, and review others' code with the same rigor you'd want on your own.\nDrive your own improvements, performance fixes, refactors, tooling, and developer experience without waiting to be assigned them.\nRequirements:\n4+ years in a software engineering role, with real depth in the backend building APIs and services in Python that run at scale.\nStrong fluency in Python and solid TypeScriptyou own backend systems, and you're comfortable moving across the stack rather than staying on one side of it.\nA solid foundation in backend engineering: API design, data modeling, relational databases (Postgres), and reasoning clearly about scalability, reliability, and failure modes.\nComfort with cloud infrastructure we run on AWS (ECS, RDS/Postgres, S3, Lambdas, and friends) and an understanding of how your code actually runs in production.\nReal frontend experience with React (and Next.js ) / React Native enough to own a feature through the UI when it needs it, even though the backend is your center of gravity.\nHigh ownership. 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