Senior Python Backend Developer

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The Motley Fool

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Finance • Media • Education

The Motley Fool is a financial services company founded in 1993 by brothers Tom and David Gardner. It aims to make the world smarter, happier, and richer by helping millions of people attain financial freedom. The Motley Fool offers premium investing solutions, free market analysis on its website Fool. com, personal finance education, podcasts, and manages the non-profit Motley Fool Foundation. The company provides guidance on stock market news, investing strategies, retirement planning, and personal finance products, striving to empower investors through refreshing, engaging, and fun financial content.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1993

💸 Finance

📱 Media

📚 Education

💰 $25M Private Equity Round on 2009-11

📋 Description

• Develop The Motley Fool’s investing microservices. • Build systems and data vital to our investing products, websites, tools, and subscribers. • Integrate with various third-party providers and tools. • Ensure that critical data remains fresh, accurate, and highly available with failover capabilities. • Collaborate with the product owner and project manager to define work, value, and acceptance criteria. • Partner with multiple in-house teams and external providers to launch customer-facing solutions. • Utilize AI tools like Claude or GitHub Copilot to support the team (e.g., developing architectural concepts and diagrams, starter code, and automated tests). • Review code and be part of an on-call rotation

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in building, delivering, enhancing, and maintaining APIs consumed by multiple systems using Python-based frameworks like FastAPI and Django. • Experience building scalable, high performance backends served to hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users. • Significant experience in data caching and caching strategies. • Experience with asynchronous data retrieval and processing. • Experience working with relational databases, ORMs, and SQL. • Experience with query tuning and optimization. • Experience with Docker, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines. • Proficient in system monitoring and telemetry. • Ability to translate business goals and requirements into technical solutions. • Demonstrated success within high-performance teams where cross-functional collaboration is valued. • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.