Software Engineer | Python, Mid-Level (Remote)

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Job Summary:

AffiniPay is a leading fintech company based in Austin, Texas, recognized for its rapid growth and innovative payment solutions. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale their CasePeer software, which serves thousands of legal professionals. The role involves supporting technical decisions, mentoring other engineers, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Support technical decisions, providing guidance and expertise in software architecture, design patterns, and best practices

• Design and implement scalable applications in a MVC (Django) environment while leveraging best practices and modern technologies like (e.g. Kubernetes)

• Collaborate with Product to proactively consider trade-offs, identify risks to timelines, consider where we can improve as a team in order to deliver business outcomes

• Mentor and coach other software engineers, fostering their professional growth and development

• Support software deployments, including debugging, troubleshooting, and coordination with DevOps and QA Engineers

• Collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand requirements, communicate technical solutions, and ensure alignment with business objectives

• Drive technology initiatives within the team and product to maintain application performance, scalability and sustainability

• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, continuously learning and evolving your skills to drive innovation and excellence within the team

• Provide technical expertise to the broader engineering group to help drive positive results and outcomes

Qualifications:

Required:

• BS in Computer Science or related field

• 2+ years of experience designing, implementing, monitoring, and debugging large-scale solutions in cloud-based environments

• Experience building and deploying production-grade web applications at scale

• Familiar with LEAN product development and Agile frameworks - Scrum or Kanban

• Experience building robust and resilient applications with event-based, microservices architecture

• Expert in Python and Django Framework (or equivalent)

• Strong understanding of SOLID design principles and design patterns

• Strong understanding with SQL, and familiarity with databases such as Postgres or MySql

• Strong teamwork and documentation skills

Preferred:

• Experience with Containers (Docker), Kubernetes and Argo CD

• Experience working with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, GCE)

• Expertise in full-stack web development with Django and React

• Experience building Software as a Service (SaaS) applications at scale

• Experience in writing front-end components using React

• This position is preferred to sit in Austin, Texas

• This role is preferred to sit in Austin, Texas

Company:

AffiniPay is a FinTech company that supports online credit card transactions for professional trade associations. Founded in 2005, the company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage. AffiniPay has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.