Founding Back-End Engineer (Part-Time, Equity-Only)

Equity Range: 1.5% – 2.0%

About the Role

We are an early-stage, venture-ready technology startup developing a mobile-first platform in the financial technology space. Our mission is to make sophisticated financial tools accessible to a global audience through elegant design, automation, and intelligent data integration.

We are seeking a part-time Back-End Engineer (Python / FastAPI / SQLAlchemy) to help build and scale our core API and data-processing infrastructure. This role focuses on managing massive data requests, optimizing performance across multiple providers, and contributing to a platform designed for global scalability and reliability.

You will work alongside our DevOps and database engineers to design efficient data pipelines and use UML as a foundational framework for system architecture and development planning.

What You’ll Do

  • Build and optimize API services that process and serve large-scale financial data requests
  • Design efficient data flow pipelines to support analytics, backtesting, and live market features
  • Integrate multiple third-party market data providers through unified interfaces
  • Collaborate with DevOps to ensure scalability, observability, and fault tolerance
  • Apply UML-based system design as a basis for architectural decisions and implementation
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks to ensure consistent API speed and uptime

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong experience with Python, FastAPI, and SQLAlchemy
  • Proven ability to build and optimize scalable back-end systems under heavy data loads
  • Skilled in asynchronous programming, background job processing, and caching strategies
  • Experience using UML to guide software design and development workflows
  • Familiar with PostgreSQL, Docker, and Kubernetes in production environments
  • Understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and API versioning best practices
  • Comfortable working part-time within a distributed global team on an equity-only basis until launch

Why Join Us

You will join a team that values design, discipline, and deliberate architecture over shortcuts. With zero legacy code and full autonomy, you’ll shape a platform built on modern, scalable technologies from day one.

This is an opportunity to contribute meaningfully to a global fintech product before launch and earn substantial long-term equity upside.

Location: Fully Remote (no timezone preference)
Commitment: ~10–15 hours per week

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