Senior Back-End Developer

A rapidly-growing company that is helping parents build a better future for their children by providing them revolutionary access to simple, cost-effective financial solutions, is looking for a Senior Back-End Developer. The selected candidate will collaborate closely with the CTO and engineering team to seamlessly execute and build new products and features. The fintech company is on a mission to empower parents to invest and secure their children's future with crypto. The US-based company has managed to raise $35mn+ during their Series B round of funding. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Iterate quickly by adding up new business features to the application
• Actively engage in code reviews within teams
• Deliver high-quality solutions while maintaining  aggressive timelines
• Brainstorm solutions for proper upkeep of existing systems
• Work closely with the CTO and engineering team to build new products 
• Maintain and advocate high-quality codes through code reviews 
• Drive innovation within the team by actively confronting ambiguous problems 

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 4+ years of relevant experience as a back-end developer
• Experience with designing complex, secure, and scalable services and applications 
• Prolific experience working with Python 3.6+, preferably with Django
• Minimum of 4 years experience in writing unit and integration tests e.g. Pytest
• Nice to have experience working with cloud development systems, preferably AWS
• 4 years of minimum experience with databases, such as PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Knowledge of back-end liaising with native mobile apps e.g., REST/JSON
• Demonstrable experience in CI/CD development 
• Strong interpersonal skills and fluency in verbal and written English 
• Proven experience integrating into third party services/platforms
• Thorough understanding of core development tools BitBucket/GitHub and Jira
• Nice to have experience in API documentation standard Swagger, AWS CloudFormation, AWS SAM (Serverless Experience) and Celery
• Analytical and critical thinking ability