Principal Python Engineer

Company Overview

Fintastic 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.

Job Opportunity

We are looking for a highly motivated engineer with technical leadership experience. 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 strong python engineer with at least 6 years of experience who possesses a deep understanding of Python, engineering practices for scale and data systems, a problem solver, who is enthusiastic about building future proof solutions, architecture, and cracking technical and product challenges
• The ideal candidate should have prior experience with Cloud systems, Web technologies, and data systems
• As a core team member, and a technical leader, you will have the opportunity to be involved in strategy, product, and customer design solutions, in order to build a scalable and secure platform providing high-end user experience to our business customers, while taking a major role in supporting and enabling our growth

Key Responsibilities

• Hands-on building of challenging backend production components, infrastructure and core functionalities, from projects research, design, testing, and production monitoring
• Troubleshooting technical challenges
• Analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various backend system components
• Implementing specific technical components or modules of the product, ensuring that the overall architecture aligns with the company's business objectives, in short-term and long-term vision
• Conduct Design and Code Reviews in the team, implementing best practices and technical standards, that ensuring the system architecture meets the company's requirements for scalability, reliability, and performance
• Be involved in the definition & planning of new features

Requirements

• Very strong backend development experience, including significant work in python and AWS
• Enthusiastic about code quality, architecture, design, testing, and performance
• Hands-on experience with designing, building, deploying and maintaining scalable production 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 in working with data. ETL experience - an advantage
• Past knowledge of financial analysis work - an advantage

Apply here: Staff Python Engineer Position