Backend Software Engineer (Python) — Threat Intelligence & Security Platform

Gambit Technologies; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Gambit Technologies in New York, NY is seeking a Backend Software Engineer (Python) to join the Threat Intelligence & Security Platform team. This hybrid role focuses on deep backend work including schema design, clean API interfaces, and an IAM rollout that standardizes client libraries for security teams.

You will own testing, performance tuning, and build a drop-in security client library while evolving APIs and databases to support enterprise threat intelligence across the platform.

Qualifications

• Strong Python programming required.
• Experience building RESTful APIs.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Design database schemas and migrate to internally managed relational stores
• Build and evolve REST APIs and middleware
• Refactor services to consume clean APIs and shed direct DB coupling
• Ship a new IAM-aware client library used across multiple security teams
• Own testing (unit → e2e) and performance tuning under load

Skills

Python

REST APIs

Databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB)

Job description

Backend Software Engineer (Python) — Threat Intelligence & Security Platform

New York, NY (Hybrid)

Want your Python to protect one of the world's most critical financial platforms? A leading global financial-technology firm is hiring a backend engineer for its Threat Intelligence & Forensics team to modernize the systems that store, source, and correlate threat data across the enterprise. This is deep backend work — schema design, clean API interfaces, a company-wide IAM rollout, and a new client library that becomes the drop-in standard for security teams across the organization.

What you'll do

• Design database schemas and migrate to internally managed relational stores
• Build and evolve REST APIs and middleware
• Refactor services to consume clean APIs and shed direct DB coupling
• Ship a new IAM-aware client library used across multiple security teams
• Own testing (unit → e2e) and performance tuning under load

What you bring

• Strong Python (the core requirement)
• REST APIs, relational + NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)