Senior Backend Engineer at Thaloz

we are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with a strong technical foundation and a passion for building scalable and robust systems. This role demands expertise in Go, Python, and/or Rust, exceptional architecture design skills, and a holistic understanding of product development. The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded engineer with a commitment to clean code and best practices, ready to make a significant impact on our innovative products.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable backend architectures for our Fintech products.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code primarily in Go, Python, and/or Rust, adhering to best practices.
• Contribute to the refactoring and redesign of existing codebases.
• Optimize system performance and conduct cost-benefit analyses.
• Build and manage distributed systems to ensure reliability and scalability.
• Develop and optimize end-to-end APIs, data flows, SQL queries, and infrastructure.
• Apply advanced software engineering principles throughout the development lifecycle, including design, version control, build processes, automated deployments, code reviews, and testing.
• Collaborate effectively within a technically driven team.
• Contribute to data ingestion processes using Spark.
• Work with cloud infrastructure on AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in Python/Go/Rust.
• 2+ years of experience in SQL
• Experience in AWS (cloud) and Terraform (IAAS)
• Affinity for refactoring and redesigning legacy code bases
• Cost vs performance analysis
• Experience in building and managing distributed systems
• Experience in developing and optimizing end-to-end APIs, data-flows, SQL queries and infrastructure for consumer or enterprise products
• Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles including software design, source control management, build processes, automated deployments, code reviews, testing methods
• Hustle, curiosity, humility
• Experience working with Spark and building ingestion

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