Senior Python Developer (Back-end)
Summary
Senior Python back-end developer at Stilt, a YC-backed fintech startup providing loans and banking services to immigrants. Day to day: design, build and maintain APIs and services, scale infrastructure to handle millions of requests per hour, and improve engineering standards using Python frameworks like Flask, Django or FastAPI.
Job Description
Job Description
Stilt is a mission-driven (YC W16) fintech startup focused on providing loan access and banking services to immigrants and other underserved applicants. We are building a product to improve financial inclusion and democratize access to credit, such as providing loans with no cosigner required and low-interest rates with no hidden fees. Founded by an immigrant team with expertise in finance, technology, and machine learning, Stilt has now served immigrants from 150+ countries!
What will you do?
- Design, build and maintain APIs, services, and systems in the Stilt production environment
- Scale infrastructure so that we can support millions of requests per hour
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Improve code quality design, and overall design of current and future infrastructure
Requirements- You are a python master
- Love building APIs using Flask/Django/FastAPI or any other modern framework
- Enjoy building scalable APIs
- Enjoy tackling difficult scaling challenges
- Take pride in completing a project, and shipping it to the end-user
- Have a growth mindset, and constantly learning and improving engineering as well as interpersonal skills
- Keep yourself accountable for work, by keeping track of key metrics for yourself
- Thrive in a multidisciplinary team and like solving difficult problems