Databento is a startup that builds modern APIs to get financial data and is looking for a software engineer to join their team to develop web backend and APIs for their core products, maintain existing applications, and improve performance and developer experience.
Requirements
- Proficiency in modern Python.
- 3+ years of work experience designing, implementing, and/or integrating web APIs (REST, GraphQL, RPC).
- Experience with financial data (market data feeds, time series, security references, machine-readable news) or analytics.
- Experience working within a Linux environment.
- Exposure to lower-level languages, such as C, C++, or Rust.
- Experience with containerized application deployment (Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes).
- Experience with release engineering, CI/CD, and zero-downtime deployment practices (GitLab CI, TeamCity, Spinnaker).
Responsibilities
- Working with engineers and product team to develop web backend and APIs for our core products.
- Working with engineers and product team to ideate, design, and implement product features and improvements.
- Maintaining existing web and data applications.
- Improving performance and developer experience of our web APIs.
- Improving engineering workflows, e.g., testing, release, deployment, QA, and documentation.
Other
- This is a remote role
- We're open to hiring from a broad range of experience levels (on parity with L3 to L6 at a large tech firm).
- We offer health, dental, disability, and life insurance benefits, as well as 401(k) matching for full-time employees.
- We accommodate 100% remote work, with teammates living around the globe and paid in their local currency.
- Prior work experience at a high-growth tech startup or electronic trading firm.
