Senior Software Engineer (API/Backend)

Posted 20 Days Ago
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4 Locations
7+ Years Experience
Fintech
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Databento, you will design and maintain scalable APIs and backend services, collaborate on web application features, manage database migrations, implement CI/CD best practices, and ensure application performance. The role involves both backend and possible frontend development responsibilities in a remote setting.
Summary Generated by Built In

Databento is a startup that builds modern APIs to get financial data. As a Series A startup, we've raised nearly $30M to date, and have grown our revenues by over 958% Y/Y in the past year—all with a team of fewer than 30 employees.

We're looking for a software engineer to join our team. This is a remote role that primarily involves backend development and product engineering, with optional frontend responsibilities. We're open to hiring from a broad range of experience levels (on parity with L3 to L6 at a large tech firm). You'll have an outsized impact on the company's trajectory.

We offer health, dental, disability, and life insurance benefits, as well as 401(k) matching and visa sponsorships for full-time employees. We accommodate 100% remote work, with teammates living around the globe and paid in their local currency.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable APIs and backend services in Python and FastAPI.
  • Work with our product designers and frontend engineers to build new web application features.
  • Manage database schema changes and migrations to support our applications.
  • Collaborate with the systems team to implement best practices for the build, deployment, and CI/CD.
  • Implement monitoring and improve application performance and stability.
  • Ensure smooth feature rollouts and updates.

Requirements

  • At least 1 year of full-time software engineering experience, preferably at a tech company, high-growth startup, or fintech firm with a large-scale web application.
  • Strong proficiency in Python.
  • Experience with modern web APIs (e.g., REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, HTTP/3) and web development frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Django).
  • Experience with relational (e.g., MySQL, Postgres, Vitess) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Clickhouse).
  • Practical experience with containerization (e.g., Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes).
  • Practical experience with deployment pipelines (e.g., zero-downtime deployment, A/B/multivariate testing, feature flags).
  • Good communication skills and work ethic for a collaborative remote environment.

Nice to have

  • Experience with frontend development (JavaScript, HTML/CSS, React SPAs, Next.js, Astro, Tailwind CSS).
  • An interest in financial data or algorithmic trading.

Notice about phishing scams

Be cautious of phishing scams impersonating Databento that may offer a job interview and request that you make a purchase through a phishing link. All official Databento emails come from databento.com or, occasionally, us.greenhouse-mail.io (as Greenhouse.io is our ATS). Any other domains—such as databento-careers.com, databento.online, databento.io, databento.us, etc.—are fake.

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Databento, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Databento complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Pursuant to applicable laws, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. And if you believe that you will need any type of accommodation, please let us know.

Our recruiting data suggests that underrepresented applicants often downplay their skills. Even if your experience doesn’t exactly match the qualifications listed, we still want to hear from you. Please apply! 

Top Skills

JavaScript
Python
The Company
26 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

We're hiring! Check out our job openings here: https://www.databento.com/careers.

Databento makes it simpler and faster to get market data. Our self-service model allows users to instantly pick up live exchange feeds and terabytes of historical data — and only pay for what they use. Our goal is to power the world's largest finance and fintech institutions and make data accessible for small startups.

Since starting in 2019, we've raised over $27.8M in funding. Our team brings years of experience running high-frequency trading desks, and includes alumni from firms like Two Sigma, Google, Microsoft, and Bloomberg.

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