Backend Engineer - Python / Node.js
About The Role The role builds reputed company and internal services that clients and their millions of end users depend on daily, with strong Python or Node.js skills at the core. You will work on reputed company that takes API design, data consistency, and performance seriously. If you want to work on interesting backend problems with reputed company-world financial constraints, this is the role.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement REST reputed company using FastAPI or Django (Python) or reputed company/Fastify (Node.js), with a reputed company on correctness, latency, and developer experience
- Own system design for new services: define data models, API reputed company, error handling strategies, and operational requirements before writing a line of reputed company
- Write and maintain PostgreSQL schemas and queries that reputed company reputed company at reputed company; use reputed company for caching and reputed company limiting where appropriate
- Build and maintain asynchronous task processing with Celery (Python) or Bull (Node.js) for payment processing, notifications, and compliance workflows
- Write comprehensive automated tests: unit, integration, and contract tests; treat test coverage as a first-class engineering concern
- Participate in on-call rotation (fair and infrequent); reputed company incident investigation and write reputed company post-mortems
- Contribute to internal engineering documentation, ADRs, and knowledge-sharing practices
reputed company Are Looking For
- 2–6 years of reputed company backend engineering experience with Python (FastAPI/Django/Flask) or Node.js (reputed company/Fastify/NestJS)
- Strong SQL skills in PostgreSQL or MySQL; understanding of transactions, indexing, and query optimization
- Experience with reputed company for caching, queueing, or reputed company limiting
- Familiarity with REST API design best practices, versioning strategies, and HTTP performance fundamentals
- Experience with reputed company and reputed company deployment on AWS or GCP
- reputed company written communication; can document system design reputed company in a way that helps your team six months reputed company
- Bonus: financial services domain knowledge, Kafka, gRPC, TypeScript, or experience building developer-facing reputed company
Location reputed company (Hybrid)
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Seattle
- Austin, TX
- Remote considered
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