Senior Backend Engineer - Fintech Platform (Python/Django)

d1g1t Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Healthcare benefits

Employee Assistance

Wellness credit

Education allowance

Hybrid work

Work abroad (2 months)

Mac/Windows devices

Job summary

d1g1t is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join its engineering team and contribute to a large, production-grade platform used by sophisticated financial services clients in Canada. The role centers on Python and backend systems, with ownership from design through deployment and ongoing support.

The successful candidate will work closely with Product and Engineering to shape technical solutions, improve existing systems, and deliver robust backend features.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software development experience.
• Strong Python as your primary backend language.
• Production experience with Django, or FastAPI/Flask.
• Experience owning features from design through deployment and maintenance.
• Strong debugging skills in large, mature codebases.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL including indexing, query optimization, and diagnosing slow queries.
• Experience building and maintaining REST APIs.
• Ability to reason about performance, scalability, and reliability in production systems.
• Familiarity with Celery, Redis, Git, and modern backend development workflows.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work independently while aligning with the team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to understand, refine, and shape functional requirements.
• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain backend features using Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and related technologies.
• Take ownership of work from technical design through implementation, production release, and ongoing support.
• Navigate and improve a large, mature codebase with years of production history.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues across application logic, data flows, APIs, background jobs, and database layers.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and implement practical, scalable improvements.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code that supports long-term product reliability.
• Review tickets, provide clear updates, give feedback to peers, and contribute to strong engineering practices.

Skills

Python

Django

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

Debugging

Git

Celery

Redis

API design

Large codebases

Tools

FastAPI

Flask

AWS

Job description

d1g1t is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join its engineering team and contribute to a large, production-grade platform used by sophisticated financial services clients in Canada. The role centers on Python and backend systems, with ownership from design through deployment and ongoing support.

The successful candidate will work closely with Product and Engineering to shape technical solutions, improve existing systems, and deliver robust backend features.