Senior Backend Engineer

About fintastic:
fintastic is on a mission to reinvent financial planning and analysis for the modern enterprise. We've built the most advanced and scalable FP&A platform on the market, already replacing legacy giants like Anaplan and Workday Adaptive at companies such as Priceline, Gigamon, Scale AI, Nextech, and more. After years of deep technical investment, we launched commercially last year and are growing rapidly, backed by top-tier VCs and strategic operators.

We’re looking for curious, driven, and collaborative people to join us as we scale.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a senior backend developer with at least 6 years of experience who possesses a deep understanding of Python and Data systems, enthusiastic about code quality, architecture, design, testing, and performance. 

The ideal candidate should have prior experience with Cloud systems, Web technologies, and Testing methodologies. Previous experience with startups or Israeli companies is a must.

As a core team member, you will have the opportunity to be involved in strategy, product, and customer design solutions,in order to build a scalable and secure platform providing high end user experience to our business customers.

Key responsibilities:

• Hands on building of challenging backend production components, infrastructure and core functionalities.

• Be in charge of all engineering aspects of your projects from research, design, and testing.

• Rollout & monitor your code in production to make sure we deliver the best customer experience.

• Be involved in the definition & planning of new features, with the Product management team

• Conduct Design and Code Reviews, and take part of cross architecture decisions

• Analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various backend system components

Requirements:

• Very strong backend development experience, including significant work in python and AWS

• Significant experience in technical leadership in a startup environment

• Enthusiastic about code quality, architecture, design, testing, and performance.

• Hands on experience with designing, building, deploying and maintaining scalable systems on the cloud.

• Very good understanding of critical production systems concepts - high availability, reliability, security and scalability

• Considerable familiarity with Cloud infrastructure, databases, docker, kubernetes & CI/CD.

• Experience as fullstack, or frontend implementation -  an advantage

• Experience in working with data. ETL experience - an advantage

• Past knowledge of financial analysis work - an advantage