As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will bring your exceptional engineering and security expertise to our ambitious, tight-knit team to drive our multi-faceted financial guidance platform forward. If you love building financial products in complex numbers-oriented problem domains, find deep satisfaction in exactness and thrive when your team can rely on your skilled contributions, this is a great role for you!

As a backend engineer you’ll be:

• Architecting eloquent data schemas in PostgreSQL and Python
• Write technical design documents
• Project manage the technical side of product development
• Deeply understand the product domain of employer-sponsored insurance and financial benefits
• Coordinate technical implementations with external partners
• Review code changes submitted by your team members to ensure quality and correctness
• Developing new RESTful API endpoints with unit tests in Python 3
• Writing SQL queries, functions and triggers in PostgreSQL
• Implementing data analysis services in Python and SQL to power dashboard metrics
• Developing integrations with third-party services
• Performing both automated and manual quality assurance testing
• Building services in Python that integrate with AWS services
• Always maintaining a security-first mindset

Some skills we think you’ll need to succeed in this role:

• Proven ability with Python 3 with an understanding of core asyncio principles
• Expert in building robust distributed systems with RESTful Web APIs
• Proficient in SQL and able/willing to work directly with PostgreSQL instead of through an ORM
• Experience with Amazon AWS services like Lambda, SNS, SES, S3, API Gateway, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, and CloudFormation.
• Understanding of application security, threat models, and threat mitigation techniques
• Familiarity with Docker
• Comfortable working with git and GitHub or GitLab
• Able to understand product objectives and translate them into technical requirements
• Able to work independently and creatively while actively collaborating with front-end developers and product designers
• A knack for solving problems and debugging
• Excellent communication skills

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics, or equivalent
• 5+ years of development experience in a production SaaS environment
• Demonstrated skill with Python, SQL, and technical writing
• Previous experience with Docker and container orchestration
• Strong understanding of application security in a SaaS environment

Our backend tech stack:

• Python 3 (aiohttp, asyncpg, pytest)
• PostgreSQL
• Docker
• AWS (CloudFormation, ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront)
• GitLab

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