Lead Back End Software Engineer

Overview

• Lead backend software engineering efforts for a dynamic technology-driven organization, focusing on scalable and reliable systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain core backend services and APIs.
• Contribute to frontend development, ensuring seamless platform integration and internal tooling enhancements.
• Drive technical architecture discussions and produce defensible design decisions with appropriate trade-off analysis.
• Mentor and develop engineering team members, fostering growth and ownership within the team.
• Ensure system uptime, financial accuracy, and developer productivity in a fast-paced environment.
• Proactively address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and reliability gaps to prevent production incidents.
• Operate in a remote work environment, providing flexibility and autonomy.

Key Responsibilities & Duties

• Serve as the technical lead across platform and backend engineering, ensuring consistent development standards.
• Design, build, and maintain core backend services and APIs using Django/Python and Go.
• Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and security risks proactively.
• Mentor engineers, providing technical guidance and fostering professional growth.
• Contribute to frontend development in React, focusing on platform integrations and tooling.
• Ensure reliability and performance of backend systems, maintaining high standards of dependability.
• Participate in on-call rotations, taking ownership of issues through resolution.
• Document learnings and processes to enhance team efficiency and knowledge sharing.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with 10 years preferred.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, and the Django ecosystem.
• Experience with RESTful API design, WebSockets, and asynchronous architectures.
• Strong understanding of databases, including schema design and query optimization.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps tooling.
• React development experience, comfortable contributing to frontend work.
• Preferred experience in trading, fintech, or container orchestration environments.