Backend Engineer

Databento is a startup that builds modern APIs to get financial data. As a Series A startup we've raised $37.8M to date and grown our revenues by over 958% Y/Y in the past year—all with a team of fewer than 30 employees.

We're looking for a software engineer to join our team. This is a remote role that primarily involves backend development and product engineering with optional frontend responsibilities. We're open to hiring from a broad range of experience levels (on parity with L3 to L6 at a large tech firm). You'll have an outsized impact on the company's trajectory.

We offer health dental disability and life insurance benefits as well as 401(k) matching for full-time employees. We accommodate 100% remote work with teammates living around the globe and paid in their local currency.

Responsibilities

• Working with engineers and product team to develop web backend and APIs for our core products.

• Working with engineers and product team to ideate design and implement product features and improvements.

• Maintaining existing web and data applications.

• Improving performance and developer experience of our web APIs.

• Improving engineering workflows e.g. testing release deployment QA and documentation.

Requirements

• Proficiency in modern Python.

• 3+ years of work experience designing implementing and/or integrating web APIs (REST GraphQL RPC).

Nice-to-haves

• Prior work experience at a high-growth tech startup or electronic trading firm.

• Experience with financial data (market data feeds time series security references machine-readable news) or analytics.

• Experience working within a Linux environment.

• Exposure to lower-level languages such as C C++ or Rust.

• Experience with containerized application deployment (Docker Docker Swarm Kubernetes).

• Experience with release engineering CI/CD and zero-downtime deployment practices (GitLab CI TeamCity Spinnaker).

• Experience with database design and administration (MySQL Redis ClickHouse).

• Experience with web frameworks (Django Flask FastAPI Starlette).

• Exposure to front-end web application development (TypeScript HTML CSS React).

• Experience with single-page applications and modern web app architectures.

• Degree in computer science applied mathematics or a related field.

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