Backend Engineer – Data Marketplace

🕒 March 30

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Stena Center for Financial Technology

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1 - 10 employees

💳 Fintech

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

Fintech • Education • B2B

Stena Center for Financial Technology is an interdisciplinary center at the University of Utah that accelerates financial innovation and inclusion through collaboration between education and industry. It offers students, faculty, and industry partners opportunities for workshops, labs, research, and an annual conference, all aimed at fostering advancements in fintech. The center is backed by the Stena Foundation and focuses on applied learning, knowledge sharing, and entrepreneurship within the fintech ecosystem, preparing students for careers in a rapidly evolving financial services landscape.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain backend components in Python on AWS—from integrations to orchestration layers—while learning best practices in code quality, testing, and keeping CI/CD fast and reliable. • Support outcomes for the Data Marketplace: help onboard providers, implement versioning strategies, and contribute to efforts that reduce time-to-new-integration while maintaining reliability and cost-effectiveness. • Follow and apply integration standards: learn to work with API contracts/SDKs, resilience patterns (idempotency, retries, backoff), and operational guardrails that scale to millions of daily decisions. • Collaborate on projects from discovery to production launch—participating in RFCs, validating with prototypes, aligning stakeholders, and contributing to changes with observable impact. • Improve reliability and performance: support SLOs, instrumentation (tracing/metrics/logging), dashboards, and runbooks while gaining hands-on experience in reducing latency and improving MTTR. • Grow with mentorship: participate in design reviews, pair programming, and documentation efforts while learning from senior engineers. • Collaborate in the open: join daily syncs, planning, demos, and deep-dives; work with Product, Security, and Customer teams to turn real-world needs into simple, robust solutions.

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on experience programming in Python (through coursework, projects, or internships). • Exposure to public cloud environments (AWS preferred). • Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is essential as we operate in a hybrid environment requiring clear and effective communication. • Strong foundational knowledge in computer science or software engineering and a passion for simplicity, quality, and ownership. • Ideal, but not required: Exposure to serverless and event-driven architectures (e.g., Lambda, queues, streams). • Ideal, but not required: Basic observability practices (tracing, metrics, structured logging). • Ideal, but not required: Familiarity with AI-assisted development and code generation. • Ideal, but not required: Fintech domain exposure (KYC, credit bureaus, fraud-prevention APIs). • Ideal, but not required: Experience with internships, personal projects, or open-source contributions in backend development.

🏖️ Benefits

• Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you, and help you grow. • Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members. • Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth. • Get to know and leverage our network of leading tech investors and advisors around the globe. • Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package. • Get access to a self-development budget you can use to e.g. attend conferences, buy books or take classes. • Receive a new Apple MacBook Pro, as well as meaningful home office set-up.