About the position
Ottimate is changing the way the hospitality industry manages its finances through life-changing Accounts Payable automation. Our mission is to eliminate manual work from every aspect of business expenses and enable business operators to stay in control of their spending at all times. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to contribute to our new product efforts and help us take ideas to market, specifically in fintech and payments. Our stack is based on Django, Angular, Postgres, and AWS. Expertise in Django is a big plus but familiarity with other modern technologies is a solid substitute. If you have a strong background in other frameworks, we are open to that. Planning, shipping, and learning are the most important traits we are looking for.
Responsibilities
- Discuss, plan, build and test new features.
- Bring in learnings from your previous roles and experiences to help build exciting new fintech innovations for businesses everywhere.
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, and other stakeholders in defining the user experience.
- Develop integrations with 3rd party APIs.
- Triage and fix bugs, often working directly with users.
- Manage code reviews through Pull Requests and make sure we're moving fast while maintaining Unit Tests and quality.
- Help migrate some of the modules into independent micro-services.
- Work on product features that affect 10s of thousands of customers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience working on web applications using modern software engineering processes.
- Proficient in Python and Django.
- Debugging complex database performance issues.
- Strong critical thinking skills and ability to ask questions to improve the product.
- Experience building performant and scalable backends.
- Strong communication skills to explain complex technical topics clearly.
- Eager to diagnose and fix core issues when things break.
- Experience working in an early-stage startup is a huge plus.
- Fluent in both written and spoken English.
Benefits
- Compensation: $150,000
- Medical, Dental, Vision and other Company-Subsidized Benefits for you and your family.
- Employer sponsored 401(k) with company match.
- Paid Time Off (and the encouragement to use it).
- Annual company retreats.
- Promote from within philosophy.
