API Platform Engineer (Python)

• We’re looking for a software engineer to join our team. This is a remote role that primarily involves backend development and product engineering, with optional frontend responsibilities.
• We’re open to hiring from a broad range of experience levels (on parity with L3 to L6 at a large tech firm). You’ll have an outsized impact on the company’s trajectory
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable APIs and backend services in Python and FastAPI
• Work with our product designers and frontend engineers to build new web application features
• Manage database schema changes and migrations to support our applications
• Collaborate with the systems team to implement best practices for the build, deployment, and CI/CD
• Implement monitoring and improve application performance and stability
• Ensure smooth feature rollouts and updates

Benefits

• 401k
• Health and dental insurance
• Unlimited PTO- Good communication skills and work ethic for a collaborative remote environment
• At least 1 year of full-time software engineering experience, preferably at a tech company, high-growth startup, or fintech firm with a large-scale web application
• Practical experience with deployment pipelines (e.g., zero-downtime deployment, A/B/multivariate testing, feature flags)
• Experience with relational (e.g., MySQL, Postgres, Vitess) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Clickhouse)
• Experience with modern web APIs (e.g., REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, HTTP/3) and web development frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Django)
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Practical experience with containerization (e.g., Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)
• Experience with frontend development (JavaScript, HTML/CSS, React SPAs, Next.js, Astro, Tailwind CSS)
• An interest in financial data or algorithmic trading