Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Python) (CPT Hybrid)

About the position

ENVIRONMENT:

A cutting-edge FinTech company providing a seamless payment service seeks the coding expertise of a Senior Software Engineer – Backend – with the ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new payment integrations. Also joining the Payment Integrations team, you will help manage the connection between alternative payment methods and the business ecosystem by designing, building and integrating technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations. The ideal candidate must have 6+ years of experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering, strong Python skills with AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless), MySQL & MongoDB.

DUTIES:

• Successfully complete Development tasks for payment integrations.
• Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations.
• Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant processing.
• Effective troubleshooting and debugging of payment integration issues.
• Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis.

REQUIREMENTS:

Technical experience –

• 6+ Years of experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering.
• Strong experience with Python.
• AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless).
• Database experience (MySQL, MongoDB).
• Bonus - Experience with Payment Integrations.

Problem-Solving & Ownership -

• Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new payment integrations.
• Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment.

Collaboration & Communication -

• Works well in a fully remote team, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners.

Company Tech Stack –

Languages: Python

Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Serverless)

Databases: MongoDB, MySQL

Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman, Cypress

CI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines

Monitoring: Grafana / Sentry

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

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Desired Skills:

• Senior
• Software
• Engineer