Remote Python Backend Engineer

Description:

• We are a leading trading platform that is ambitiously expanding globally.
• Our top-rated products have won prestigious industry awards for their cutting-edge technology and seamless client experience.
• We are enhancing our Backend Team and looking for skilled Engineers with an interest in trading.
• The Backend Engineering team ensures the robustness, speed, and security of our Product.
• You will be responsible for developing and optimizing our backend systems that power our Product.
• You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our systems.
• The focus will be on enhancing performance and user experience for our clients.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of distributed applications and the client-server model is required.
• Experience in FinTech, Banking, or similar areas is a must.
• Knowledge about technologies that allow for platform scaling to handle sudden influxes of user activities or transactions is necessary.
• Experience in designing, building, and optimizing high-performance systems is a plus.
• Knowledge of potential threats and security measures for transactional data is a plus.
• Strong experience with Python and related technologies (Flask, Requests, FastAPI, REST-Api, peewee, pandas) is required.
• Strong SQL knowledge, particularly with PostgreSQL, is necessary.
• Proficiency in Git Flow, Docker containerization, and TDD/BDD is required.
• Understanding and hands-on experience in SDLC, Kubernetes, pipelines, CI/CD patterns, and ongoing support (Grafana, Kibana) is necessary.
• Understanding of Cloud Native applications principles and basic knowledge of public cloud resources (AWS, Azure, GCP) is required.
• Understanding of event-driven architecture (Kafka or similar solutions) is necessary.
• Effective communication skills, especially with teams responsible for security, operations, and product, are required.
• Ability to tackle and investigate complicated problems and convert them into tasks is necessary.
• Demonstrated capability to adjust to quick technological shifts and evolving business requirements is required.
• Readiness to take ownership of tasks and demonstrate accountability for results is necessary.

Benefits:

• You will join a company that cares about work and life balance.
• An annual bonus based on the performance review cycle is provided.
• A generous annual leave policy is offered.
• Medical insurance and a pension fund, with additional benefit packages based on location, are included.
• Flexible work options are available, allowing you to choose between a hybrid model or fully remote work.
• A multisite policy allows for 30 additional days of working remotely from anywhere in the world.
• The possibility of taking two additional days of paid leave per year to dedicate to volunteering efforts is offered.