Backend Software Engineer — Python + AI Tools (Fintech)

Ottimate; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary range: USD 130,000-155,000 per年

Annual bonus

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Promote from within

Job summary

Ottimate in Oregon is seeking a capable software engineer to join as its third engineer. You will own and evolve backend features using Python, Django, and relational databases, while leveraging AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development and maintain high standards of correctness and security.

You will investigate customer feedback, write tests, review AI-generated code, and contribute to API, asynchronous jobs, and data-processing workflows.

Qualifications

• Professional software engineering experience at an early-to-mid-career level.
• Strong working knowledge of Python.
• Experience designing, querying, and debugging applications backed by relational databases.
• Familiarity with APIs, automated testing, Git, and collaborative software-development practices.
• Experience using AI-assisted coding tools in real development work.
• The ability to evaluate and validate generated code rather than accepting it automatically.
• Strong debugging skills, including in an unfamiliar codebase, and the habit of asking what a bug did to customer data, then helping correct it.
• An understanding of common application concerns such as authorization, concurrency, retries, idempotency, and failure handling.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• A careful approach to systems that handle sensitive business and financial data.
• Comfort working on a small team with broad ownership and changing priorities.
• Curiosity, humility, and a willingness to ask questions, receive feedback, and learn new systems.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, and maintain backend product features, primarily using Python, Django, and relational databases.
• Use AI coding tools to investigate problems, implement changes, write tests, and improve documentation.
• Critically review AI-generated code for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Turn customer feedback into reproducible technical problems, fix the root cause, check whether customer data was affected, and update it.
• Translate ambiguous customer feedback into reproducible technical problems and practical product improvements.
• Own work from initial investigation through implementation, testing, QA, deployment verification, and follow-up.
• Build and maintain APIs, asynchronous jobs, integrations, internal tools, and data-processing workflows.
• Write clear, maintainable code with appropriate automated test coverage.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions with the rest of the engineering team.
• Improve system reliability, observability, documentation, and development processes.
• Protect financial correctness, tenant isolation, data integrity, auditability, and customer privacy.
• Gradually take ownership of larger features and technical decisions as you grow in the role.

Skills

Python

Relational databases

APIs

AI-assisted coding tools

Debugging

Security awareness

Write tests

Code reviews

Customer empathy

Tools

Django

PostgreSQL

Celery

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

Sentry/OpenTelemetry

Job description

Ottimate in Oregon is seeking a capable software engineer to join as its third engineer. You will own and evolve backend features using Python, Django, and relational databases, while leveraging AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development and maintain high standards of correctness and security.

You will investigate customer feedback, write tests, review AI-generated code, and contribute to API, asynchronous jobs, and data-processing workflows.