Senior Python Backend Engineer (hold)

Our clinent is an early-stage startup based in Tel Aviv, founded by successful repeat entrepreneurs and funded by top-tier VCs.

We are developing a first-of-its-kind, AI-driven, financial planning and analysis platform for finance departments in companies, that is set to disrupt the FP&A software market.

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced back-end developer, an independent and self-driven engineer, with proven system design and hands-on skills, which flourishes in the environment of a young, dynamic startup.

This is a unique opportunity to join a strong core team during this exciting time of taking a disruptive product to market.

Role Overview:

• We are looking for a senior backend developer with at least 6 years of experience who possesses a deep understanding of Python and Data systems, enthusiastic about code quality, architecture, design, testing, and performance.
• The ideal candidate should have prior experience with Cloud systems, Web technologies, and Testing methodologies. Previous experience with startups or Israeli companies is a must.
• As a core team member, you will have the opportunity to be involved in strategy, product, and customer design solutions, to build a scalable and secure platform providing high end user experience to our business customers.

Key responsibilities

• Hands-on building of challenging backend production components, infrastructure and core functionalities.
• Be in charge of all engineering aspects of your projects from research, design, and testing.
• Roll out & monitor your code in production to make sure we deliver the best customer
• experience.
• Be involved in the definition & planning of new features, with the Product management team
• Conduct Design and Code Reviews, and take part of cross-architecture decisions
• Analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various backend system components

Requirements

• 6+ years experience with Very strong backend development, including significant work in python and AWS
• Significant experience in technical leadership in a startup environment
• Enthusiastic about code quality, architecture, design, testing, and performance.
• Hands on experience with designing, building, deploying and maintaining scalable systems on the cloud.
• Very good understanding of critical production systems concepts - high availability, reliability, security and scalability
• Considerable familiarity with Cloud infrastructure, databases, docker, kubernetes & CI/CD.
• Experience as fullstack, or frontend implementation - an advantage
• Experience in working with data. ETL experience - an advantage
• Past knowledge of financial analysis work - an advantage