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Lead Backend Engineer

IntePros
Watertown, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/4/2025

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will bring your exceptional engineering and security expertise to our ambitious, tight-knit team to drive our multi-faceted financial guidance platform forward. If you love building financial products in complex numbers-oriented problem domains, find deep satisfaction in exactness and thrive when your team can rely on your skilled contributions, this is a great role for you!

As a backend engineer you'll be :

  • Architecting eloquent data schemas in PostgreSQL and Python
  • Write technical design documents
  • Project manage the technical side of product development
  • Deeply understand the product domain of employer-sponsored insurance and financial benefits
  • Coordinate technical implementations with external partners
  • Review code changes submitted by your team members to ensure quality and correctness
  • Developing new RESTful API endpoints with unit tests in Python 3
  • Writing SQL queries, functions and triggers in PostgreSQL
  • Implementing data analysis services in Python and SQL to power dashboard metrics
  • Developing integrations with third-party services
  • Performing both automated and manual quality assurance testing
  • Building services in Python that integrate with AWS services
  • Always maintaining a security-first mindset

Some skills we think you'll need to succeed in this role :

  • Proven ability with Python 3 with an understanding of core asyncio principles
  • Expert in building robust distributed systems with RESTful Web APIs
  • Proficient in SQL and able / willing to work directly with PostgreSQL instead of through an ORM
  • Experience with Amazon AWS services like Lambda, SNS, SES, S3, API Gateway, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, and CloudFormation.
  • Understanding of application security, threat models, and threat mitigation techniques
  • Familiarity with Docker
  • Comfortable working with git and GitHub or GitLab
  • Able to understand product objectives and translate them into technical requirements
  • Able to work independently and creatively while actively collaborating with front-end developers and product designers
  • A knack for solving problems and debugging
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics, or equivalent
  • 5 years of development experience in a production SaaS environment
  • Demonstrated skill with Python, SQL, and technical writing
  • Previous experience with Docker and container orchestration
  • Strong understanding of application security in a SaaS environment
  • Our backend tech stack :

  • Python 3 (aiohttp, asyncpg, pytest)
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • AWS (CloudFormation, ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront)
  • GitLab
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