Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 April 24

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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 operate backend services in Python on AWS — Lambda functions, DynamoDB, Aurora, and event-driven pipelines. • Tackle hard backend problems — latency, reliability, and scale are everyday concerns. • Own your systems end-to-end: from architecture and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and incident response. • Make key architectural decisions — you'll have real authority over how things are built. • Raise the bar for the team through code reviews, mentoring, and improving our development tooling and processes. • Work directly with Product and Design to shape what we build next.

🎯 Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of leading complex projects in a senior capacity (2+ years). • Deep expertise in Python and building backend systems on cloud platforms (we use AWS). • Strong system design skills — you're comfortable making architectural trade-offs and defending them. • Depth in at least one of these areas: data pipelines and storage, event-driven architectures, caching and performance, or serverless systems. • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders on a shared vision. • The ability to work in a hybrid model from our Berlin HQ, the London office, or the Iasi hub. Please note that relocation assistance is not provided for this role.

🏖️ 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. • 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.