Staff Backend Software Engineer, Self Financial

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Solid understanding and application of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• Fluency with the development of Python/Flask/FastAPI code in a production environment
• Extensive experience building and consuming REST APIs to work with other services
• Proficiency with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience in the container space such as Docker
• Experience with common software engineering tools such as Git (or other VCS), Jira, Confluence, and similar platforms
• Experience with AWS and other related cloud architectures/services

Desirable

• As a Staff Backend Software Engineer on our Consumer Verticals Card Team, you will be working to provide our builders with an equitable credit card experience, one that caters to their specific needs and will continue to grow with them on their credit-building journey
• Most of your time will be spent on writing clean and effective code which you will manage from inception through deployment
• You will collaborate directly with our Lead Engineers, Architecture, and Product Manager and work alongside our amazing team of Professional Engineers
• Develop capabilities that support our credit building products and banking core systems
• Develop services and infrastructure that provide essential functions at a massive scale
• Work closely with Product Managers to build tools and systems required for us to service our financial products to our large customer base
• Report to an Engineering Manager and work with our amazing team of Professional Engineers

• You’ll meet with someone from our Recruiting team so we can learn more about you and answer some of your questions
• You’ll meet with the Hiring Manager to learn more about the team, and the role, and get to tell us more about what you’d bring to the team
• You’ll meet team members who will be your peers to help you get a feel for a “real day in the life” at Self