Senior Backend Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a sharp, driven Backend Engineer to join a fast-moving team, building the infrastructure behind a sophisticated financial data platform. You will help productize the data generated by our document extraction pipeline, built on LLMs, NLP, and other proprietary algorithms. You'll work to build interactive web applications that allow our users to interact with the valuable structured data extracted from complex finance documents.

Reports to: Director of Engineering

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain the APIs and databases needed to support our growing application suite
• Work with Product to define requirements and deliver highly performant applications
• Expand and build upon our micro-service backend architecture
• Collaborate with the rest of Engineering (FE, Data Platform, Infrastructure) in an Agile environment, using modern project management practices

What We're Looking For

Required:

• 7+ years of experience in a start-up, financial institution, or technology company
• Strong backend Python fundamentals, especially in FastAPI
• Strong working knowledge of GraphQL and REST APIs
• Working knowledge of databases and data warehouses
• Experience with DevOps best practices, including CI/CD and QA
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

You are:

• Self-directed and driven. You don't wait to be told what to do next; you bring ideas to the table
• A clear communicator who can work well across technical and non-technical teams
• Organized and adaptable in a fast-paced environment

Nice to have:

• Experience with Strawberry (Python graphQL Library)
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with PostGraphile
• Frontend development experience, especially React
• Experience working with financial data and clients