API Platform Engineer (Python)

Join our team as an API Platform Engineer (Python) in a remote role focused on backend development and product engineering. You'll design, develop, and maintain scalable APIs and backend services, collaborate with product designers and frontend engineers, manage database schema changes, and implement best practices for build, deployment, and CI/CD. Ideal candidates have at least 1 year of software engineering experience, strong proficiency in Python, and experience with modern web APIs and web development frameworks. Benefits include 401k, health and dental insurance, and 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