Senior Back-end Engineer (Python) – Fintech
Niuro
Salary: $$$
Type:
Tiempo completo
Tags: Python PostgreSQL SQL Docker
Niuro connects ambitious projects with elite tech teams to deliver high-impact solutions for leading U.S. companies. The selected candidate will join a fintech-focused environment where data integrity, reliability, and scalability are paramount. You will contribute to building autonomous, high-performance backend systems that ingest, normalize, validate, and store market data at scale. This role emphasizes robust data pipelines, production-grade services, and seamless API-based integrations, enabling real-time and historical market data workflows for analytics and trading applications. The project culture values technical excellence, continuous improvement, and a collaborative global team committed to delivering measurable value while maintaining a strong administrative support backbone to allow engineers to focus on impactful work.
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Core Responsibilities
Design, implement, and maintain asynchronous Python services for market-data ingestion in a fintech setting. Build clean, well-typed, maintainable Python code using modern best practices. Design and operate microservice-based architectures using Docker. Optimize concurrency, throughput, and resource usage in asynchronous systems. Own services end-to-end: development, debugging, monitoring, and long-term improvements.
- Data Pipelines & Reliability: Build and maintain robust API-based ingestion pipelines. Handle real-world failure modes including partial data, retries, idempotency, and upstream instability. Monitor ingestion success, latency, and data quality metrics. Conduct root-cause analyses on data incidents and implement durable fixes. Ensure deterministic behavior under load.
Database & Data Integrity: Work directly with PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB using raw SQL where appropriate. Design and maintain normalized schemas for time-series and reference data. Ensure data correctness, consistency, and traceability across ingestion layers. Maintain and debug production databases. Design scalable data structures to support growing data volume and query load.
Required Experience & Skills
• 5+ years of professional experience building backend systems in Python.
• Strong experience with async Python (asyncio, async I/O patterns).
• Excellent knowledge of PostgreSQL, raw SQL, and database performance tuning.
• Experience designing and operating production distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of failure modes, backpressure, retries, and idempotency.
• Proven ability to own systems end-to-end in production.
Bonus – Fintech & Data Awareness
• Experience with financial or market data.
• Familiarity with time-series modeling and high-volume data ingestion.
• Ability to reason about how data quality impacts downstream trading or analytics systems.
• Experience supporting analytics or front-end consumers of market data.
Benefits
We provide opportunities to participate in impactful and technically rigorous industrial data projects that drive innovation and professional growth. Our work environment emphasizes technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous innovation.
Niuro supports a 100% remote work model, allowing global flexibility. We invest in career development through ongoing training programs and leadership opportunities, ensuring continuous growth and success.
Upon successful completion of the initial contract, there is potential for long-term collaboration and stable, full-time employment, reflecting our long-term commitment to our team members.
Joining Niuro means becoming part of a global community dedicated to technological excellence and benefiting from strong administrative support that enables you to focus on impactful work without distractions.
Informal dress code
No dress code is enforced.
Source: GetOnBoard | Main Category: Programming