Senior Python Backend Engineer

🌍Who we are:

Adaptiq is a technology hub specializing in building, scaling, and supporting R&D teams for high-end, fast-growing product companies in a wide range of industries.

🧩About the Product:

We power a B2B open finance infrastructure platform that aggregates financial data and initiates payments across institutions, enabling services like real-time underwriting, bank-to-bank transfers, and portfolio analytics.

Operating in a single market with plans for international expansion, the platform handles large-scale data ingestion, event-driven processing, and transaction routing for banks, fintechs, insurers, and retailers, meeting regulatory open finance requirements.

🌟About the Role:

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer who can design and own backend systems end-to-end, mentor other developers, and handle production Kubernetes environments. Backend heavy focus role with some minor tasks on frontend. 

You will collaborate with product and engineering, guide technical direction, mentor others, and help shape best practices in microservices, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native systems.

📈Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement core backend features using Python, Django, and Celery.
• Design and maintain RESTful APIs and event-driven microservices for data exchange and payment initiation.
• Model, query, and optimize complex datasets in PostgreSQL.
• Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot services on Kubernetes in AWS (and on-prem OpenShift environments).
• Drive technical designs: define data schemas, service contracts, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with product managers to refine requirements and translate them into scalable solutions.
• Mentor and review work of junior and mid-level engineers; share domain knowledge.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response to maintain high availability.
• Contribute to lightweight React front-end adjustments when backend integrations require UI support.
• Help set standards, frameworks, and patterns for future development.

💻Required Competence and Skills:

• 5+ years of experience with Python building, designing, and owning backend systems
• Proven expertise in Django, building backend applications and APIs
• Proven experience with Celery (or equivalent task-queue frameworks) 
• Strong background in designing and consuming REST APIs and event-driven microservices.
• Production experience with Kubernetes on AWS.
• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL - data modeling, indexing, query optimization
• Hands-on with cloud-native services and serverless functions (e.g., AWS Lambda).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD practices and infrastructure as code.
• Experience in diagnosing and resolving performance and reliability issues in high-traffic systems.
• Fluent in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills

➕Nice to Have:

• Experience with Oracle databases or Node.js services.
• Prior work with React for lightweight front-end tasks.
• Familiarity with OpenShift.
• Familiarity with on-prem deployments and integration with corporate environments.

🚀 Why Us:

We provide 20 days of vacation leave per calendar year (plus official national holidays of a country you are based in).

We provide full accounting and legal support in all countries we operate.

We utilize a fully remote work model with a powerful workstation and co-working space in case you need it.

We offer a highly competitive package with yearly performance and compensation reviews.