Senior Backend Engineer

About the role:

We are looking for a Senior or Principal Backend Engineer who has experience working in consumer-facing web / mobile products, knows Python (Django) and has a track record of building & shipping products quickly from scratch, at scale (thousands of users). 

You’ll be the first engineer on a completely new product and you'll be working directly with a world class team, with people from companies like Uber, Microsoft, SumUp, Revolut, Loft and Careem

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with product and design and business teams in early product development
• Writing high-quality code and contribute on Architectural decisions
• Developing new features, APIs and different tech modules
• Translating designs and concepts into API skeletons and component architectures
• Designing and implement low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Designing, build and implement micro-services architecture
• Technical conception and implementation of product-specific further developments (internal & external)

Requirements:

• Minimum 4 years of experience in backend engineering (preferred: Python / Java / Go / Node.js)
• Ability to define, design and ship new features
• Ability to work in a fast development environment and quickly adapt to changes
• Familiarity with CI /CD tools and agile development methodology, as well as version control tools such as Git
• AWS or other cloud provider experience
• Experience developing high transaction/volume processing applications
• Stellar communication and collaboration skills
• Experienced with Agile Methodologies
• Experienced with REST and JSON
• Experienced with best testing practices
• Experienced with SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL DBs

Nice to have:

• General familiarity with mortgages and how they work