Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Python)

Ocrolus Inc.

About The Position

Come build at the intersection of AI and fintech. At Ocrolus, we’re on a mission to help lenders automate workflows with confidence—streamlining how financial institutions evaluate borrowers and enabling faster, more accurate lending decisions. Our AI-powered data and analytics platform is trusted at scale, processing nearly one million credit applications every month across small business, mortgage, and consumer lending. By integrating state-of-the-art open- and closed-source AI models with our human-in-the-loop verification engine, Ocrolus captures data from financial documents with over 99% accuracy. Thanks to our advanced fraud detection and comprehensive cash flow and income analytics, our customers achieve greater efficiency in risk management, and provide expanded access to credit—ultimately creating a more inclusive financial system. Trusted by more than 400 customers—including industry leaders like Better Mortgage, Brex, Enova, Nova Credit, PayPal, Plaid, SoFi, and Square—Ocrolus stands at the forefront of AI innovation in fintech. Join us, and help redefine how the world’s most innovative lenders do business. The Mortgage Engineering team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineer with a strong focus on microservices architecture to join our team. We are looking for an exceptionally skilled Senior Software Engineer with a solid technical background and leadership skills, able to work in a fast-paced environment, and help architect and build the next generation of our backend applications.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
5+ years engineering experience.
Expert in Python and experience in building complex systems and applications.
Solid database skills (Postgres, MySQL etc) and data modeling experience.
Experience with Web Frameworks like Flask, and related ecosystems
Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
Can contribute best-practices and architectural leadership to our backend applications and help pick the architecture, frameworks and tooling for our next generation platform.
Experience leading and owning projects from beginning to end.
Experience with agile methodologies and automated testing.
Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, continuous integration, Amazon Web Services, and deployment.

Responsibilities

Designing, implementing, and maintaining Microservices using Python.
Designing and developing cloud based software products conforming to industry best practices.
Build systems, services, and tools to handle new Ocrolus products and business requirements that securely scale over millions of transactions.
Build and scale our fast-growing online services and data pipelines.
Collaborate with other teams on security, reliability, and automation.
Supporting the testing process, troubleshooting issues and resolving them.