Senior Backend Engineer — Python/Django, AI-Driven FinTech

Octane; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plans

401k with company match

Educational Assistance

Parental Leave

Wellness benefits

Job summary

Octane Lending is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build features and infrastructure for our decisioning team. You’ll work on the backend stack with Python and Django, design scalable systems, and own reliability with automated testing.

You will mentor rising talent, participate in code reviews, and collaborate across teams to deliver fast, flexible financing solutions for dealerships and customers nationwide, using AWS and modern cloud-native practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect high-quality software systems that are maintainable and scalable.
• Build elegant, high-impact features using Python and Django.
• Own the reliability of the stack with automated testing.
• Lead high-level code reviews and resolve technical bottlenecks.
• Partner across teams to turn ambitious product visions into reality.
• Mentor rising talent and set engineering excellence standards.
• Use AI-assisted development to accelerate the software lifecycle.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

Code reviews

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

CDK

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub/Azure DevOps

Job description

Octane Lending is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build features and infrastructure for our decisioning team. You’ll work on the backend stack with Python and Django, design scalable systems, and own reliability with automated testing.

You will mentor rising talent, participate in code reviews, and collaborate across teams to deliver fast, flexible financing solutions for dealerships and customers nationwide, using AWS and modern cloud-native practices.