Backend Engineer

Databento is a startup that builds modern APIs to get financial data. As a Series A startup, we've raised $37.8M to date, and grown our revenues by over 958% Y/Y in the past year—all with a team of fewer than 30 employees.

We're looking for a software engineer to join our team. This is a remote role that primarily involves backend development and product engineering, with optional frontend responsibilities. We're open to hiring from a broad range of experience levels (on parity with L3 to L6 at a large tech firm). You'll have an outsized impact on the company's trajectory.

We offer health, dental, disability, and life insurance benefits, as well as 401(k) matching for full-time employees. We accommodate 100% remote work, with teammates living around the globe and paid in their local currency.

Responsibilities

• Working with engineers and product team to develop web backend and APIs for our core products.
• Working with engineers and product team to ideate, design, and implement product features and improvements.
• Maintaining existing web and data applications.
• Improving performance and developer experience of our web APIs.
• Improving engineering workflows, e.g., testing, release, deployment, QA, and documentation.

Requirements

• Proficiency in modern Python.
• 3+ years of work experience designing, implementing, and/or integrating web APIs (REST, GraphQL, RPC).

Nice-to-haves

• Prior work experience at a high-growth tech startup or electronic trading firm.
• Experience with financial data (market data feeds, time series, security references, machine-readable news) or analytics.
• Experience working within a Linux environment.
• Exposure to lower-level languages, such as C, C++, or Rust.
• Experience with containerized application deployment (Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes).
• Experience with release engineering, CI/CD, and zero-downtime deployment practices (GitLab CI, TeamCity, Spinnaker).
• Experience with database design and administration (MySQL, Redis, ClickHouse).
• Experience with web frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI, Starlette).
• Exposure to front-end web application development (TypeScript, HTML, CSS, React).
• Experience with single-page applications and modern web app architectures.
• Degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or a related field.

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