Python Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Capital.com, a leading global trading platform, and become a skilled Python Backend Engineer. You will develop and optimize backend systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance performance and user experience for our clients. We offer a competitive compensation package including annual bonuses, generous leave, medical insurance, pension fund, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth within a dynamic and expanding company.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of distributed applications and client-server model
• Experience in FinTech, Banking, or similar areas
• Strong experience with Python and satellites (Flask, Requests, FastAPI, REST-Api, peewee, pandas)
• Strong SQL knowledge (PostgreSQL)
• Proficiency in Git Flow, Docker containerization, TDD/BDD
• Understanding and hands-on experience in SDLC, Kubernetes, pipelines, CI/CD patterns and strategies, ongoing support (Grafana, Kibana)
• Understanding of the Cloud Native applications principles and basic knowledge of resources and use cases for public cloud (AWS, Azure, and GCP)
• Understanding of the event driven architecture (Kafka or similar solutions)
• Effective communication skills, especially with teams responsible for security, operations, and product
• Ability to tackle and investigate complicated problems and convert them to the task
• Demonstrated capability to adjust to quick technological shifts and evolving business requirements
• Readiness to take ownership of tasks, and issues as well as demonstrate accountability for the results and outcome

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize backend systems that power the product
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of systems
• Focus on enhancing the performance and user experience for clients

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in developing core trading services, implementing real-time financial trading services, risk-based calculation algorithms, and designing low-latency, high-availability service
• Understanding and practical experience of blockchain fundamentals and platforms
• Knowledge of JVM performance optimization practices
• Proficiency in MetaTrader platform development and integration
• Knowledge about technologies that allow for platform scaling to handle sudden influxes of user activities or transactions
• Experience in designing, building, and optimising high-performance systems
• Knowledge of potential threats and security measures for transactional data

Benefits

• Annual Bonus based on the performance review cycle
• Generous Annual Leave Policy
• Medical Insurance and Pension fund, with additional benefit packages based on the location
• Flexible work options: choose between a hybrid model or fully remote work across your country of employment
• Multisite Policy with 30 additional days working remotely from anywhere in the world
• Possibility of taking two additional days of paid leave per year to dedicate to volunteering efforts