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 You’ll 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
