Fintech Backend Engineer — Python/Django

Ottimate; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ottimate, a US-based fintech startup, is seeking a Backend Engineer to contribute to our new product efforts and bring ideas to market. Our stack is Django, Angular, Postgres, and AWS; deep Django expertise is a must.

You will discuss, plan, build and test features, fix bugs, migrate modules to micro-services, and help scale backend systems serving thousands of customers. 3+ years of web app experience and strong communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience building web applications.
• Proficient in Python and Django.
• Debugging complex database performance issues.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem solving to improve product and user experience.
• Experience building performant and scalable backends and making pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication to explain technical topics to the team.
• Proactive in diagnosing and fixing core issues when things break.

Responsibilities

• Discuss, plan, build and test new features.
• Bring learnings from past roles to fintech innovations for businesses.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers and stakeholders on UX.
• Triage and fix bugs, often working with users.
• Manage code reviews via Pull Requests while maintaining unit tests and quality.
• Help migrate modules into independent micro-services.
• Work on features affecting thousands of customers.
• Experience in an early-stage startup is a plus.

Skills

Python

Django

Backend engineering

Web applications

Unit Tests

Communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Git

Job description

Ottimate, a US-based fintech startup, is seeking a Backend Engineer to contribute to our new product efforts and bring ideas to market. Our stack is Django, Angular, Postgres, and AWS; deep Django expertise is a must.

You will discuss, plan, build and test features, fix bugs, migrate modules to micro-services, and help scale backend systems serving thousands of customers. 3+ years of web app experience and strong communication are essential.