About the company
Our client is a fast-growing financial technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Build and own partner-facing application programming interfaces and the backend services behind them, working across a Python web application and its front end. Tune database performance and backend systems so new partners can be onboarded quickly. Take features from design through delivery with a high degree of independence.
What you'll do
- Design and build partner-facing interfaces covering transactions, reconciliation and product catalog data.
- Tune database queries and backend performance in a Python web application to support fast partner onboarding.
- Build and improve a partner-facing dashboard, using your own interfaces as its first client.
- Work with product and commercial teams to extend interfaces as new partner categories launch.
- Use AI coding assistants to speed up delivery and ship at a rapid pace.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Proven track record shipping server-side code in a Python web framework.
- Strong backend-leaning full-stack software engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience instrumenting metrics and tuning performance using data.
- Skill in shaping service interfaces and improving how data is stored and queried.
- High rate of personal growth and senior-level impact.
- Comfortable working with autonomy in ambiguous settings without a highly structured roadmap.
- Degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
Bonus points
- Experience delivering partner-facing features and integrations end to end.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Salary: $175K to $225K
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Health savings account contributions
- Retirement plan
- Flexible time off
Location and work model
- Remote (US)
- Full-time
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