Senior Backend Engineer - Python + Postgres (Remote)

Valid8 Financial, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Valid8 Financial, Inc. seeks an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to scale a data-driven platform. You’ll own backend features end-to-end, design scalable data models, and collaborate across UI/UX, product, and operations. Expect ownership of async workflows, RBAC, and server-rendered views with Flask/Jinja2.

Join a lean, high-impact team shaping real systems for real users in a fully remote role across the United States.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven experience delivering production systems with Python and relational databases.
• Familiarity with background processing, task queues, and async workflows.
• Experience working in small teams with shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own features with a focus on data.
• Lead backend development efforts using Python (Flask) and Postgres, with a focus on scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Design and evolve data models as the application transitions into a system of record.
• Build and operate background jobs, async workflows, using RQ.
• Contribute to the development of role-based access control (RBAC), permissions, and authentication systems.
• Build server-rendered UI (Flask/Jinja2) for core workflows, and partner with UI/UX on more complex, client-heavy interactions.
• Help mature our architecture as usage grows, balancing speed with long-term technical health.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and architectural decision-making.
• Communicate tradeoffs and technical decisions clearly to teammates and stakeholders.

Skills

Python

Flask

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

RBAC

Jinja2

Background jobs (RQ/Celery)

Cloud / containers

Strong communication

Tools

Flask

PostgreSQL

RQ

Celery

Jinja2

Docker

Job description

Valid8 Financial, Inc. seeks an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to scale a data-driven platform. You’ll own backend features end-to-end, design scalable data models, and collaborate across UI/UX, product, and operations. Expect ownership of async workflows, RBAC, and server-rendered views with Flask/Jinja2.

Join a lean, high-impact team shaping real systems for real users in a fully remote role across the United States.