Senior Software Engineer - Backend, Cards

The job overview for the Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Cards Engineering) role is that the candidate will be joining the Cards engineering team at Ampla, a financial platform designed to support omni channel brands. The team is responsible for building debit and charge card related products and services for customers. As a senior member of the team, the candidate will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable backend solutions for the cards product. The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams, ownership of technical design and architecture decisions, and adherence to best practices and coding standards.

Lead the design, architecture, and development of cards backend systems.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend developers, product managers, and designers, to define and implement innovative solutions.

Take ownership of technical design and architecture decisions, ensuring high-performance, scalability, and maintainability of the cards infrastructure.

Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code while adhering to best practices and coding standards.

Optimize and fine-tune the performance of the cards backend systems.

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on backend development using Python.
• Prior experience as a technical leader, such as authoring a technical specification, overseeing an initiative, or mentoring other engineers.
• Proven track record of designing and building scalable, high-performance backend systems and API.

• Competitive salary and compensation package
• Opportunity to work remotely with a diverse and distributed engineering team
• Occasional retreats for face-to-face collaboration
• Collaborative and inclusive team culture
• Mentorship and guidance from experienced engineers
• Exposure to industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies
• Agile development environment with sprint planning, grooming, and retrospectives
• Opportunity to work with modern technologies and tools such as React, Django, Airflow, Postgres, BigQuery, etc.
• Equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity and inclusion