About the role
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a small team of software engineers, fostering technical growth and engineering excellence.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend applications using Python.
- Own the complete software development lifecycle, from architecture and implementation to deployment and production support.
- Drive architectural decisions, code quality, and engineering best practices.
- Collaborate closely with researchers, quantitative teams, and engineers to build reliable and scalable systems.
- Optimize application performance, concurrency, and system reliability.
- Contribute to the design of distributed systems and large-scale backend infrastructure.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of backend software development experience, including 2+ years in a senior or technical leadership role.
- Strong expertise in Python and production-grade backend development.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, concurrency, operating systems, memory management, and performance optimization.
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex technical projects.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with Rust, PyO3 or FFI.
- Exposure to low-latency or high-throughput systems.
- Knowledge of distributed systems, networking, SQL/NoSQL databases, and large-scale data processing.