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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 Youll 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 Were 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, youll 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: ~1015 hours per week
Apply here: app.dover.com/apply/qompyl/5954db2f-c733-40b6-9494-aa40940c54e1
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