Python Backend Engineer

About us

RavenPack is the leading big data analytics provider for financial services. Financial professionals rely on RavenPack for its speed and accuracy in analyzing large amounts of unstructured content. RavenPack’s products allow clients to enhance returns, reduce risk, and increase efficiency by systematically incorporating the effects of public information in their models or workflows. Our clients include the most successful hedge funds, banks, and asset managers in the world!

The offer

We are currently looking for a seasonned Python Developer to join RavenPack’s Workflow Solutions Backend team. As a backend developer, you will focus on building reliable systems as you participate in developing and supporting one of our most innovative cloud-based products.

The ability to communicate effectively in English both in writing and verbally is a must. Knowledge of Spanish is appreciated but not a business requirement.

What will you do?

First month

• During your onboarding process, you will have scheduled meetings with the primary stakeholders of the various teams. This will give you an overall comprehension of all company products in context with the projects you will be working on.

• You will join in the scrum ceremonies, and through activities like pair programming and code reviews, you will be involved in solving real issues from the beginning.

After 3 months

• At this moment you will have enough product and project domain-related exposure for creating production-ready application code and see your changes in action.

• You will also be able to perform your own deployments that will deliver your changes to different services and environments.

6 months in

• You will have obtained deep experience and knowledge about the projects and you have become a key member of the team.

• You participate in the development of backend microservices. Including the creation of the application code and providing good test coverage

• You take ownership of the architecture components created and provide them with support, monitoring, and maintenance.

• You work together with the QA team to make sure that everything is tested from the functional point of view.

What must you have?

• Fluent in development with Python.

• Have experience with creating REST APIs using libraries like Flask, FastAPI, or similar.

• Be ready to work out of your comfort zone and have the desire for continuous improvement and continuous learning.

• Have an innate desire to learn and teach, excelling in teamwork.

• Hands-on experience with relational and no-SQL databases.

What will be appreciated?

• Be familiar with creating backend microservices in the cloud using platforms like AWS.

• Experience with querying document-oriented & search databases like Elasticsearch, Vespa, Solr, or equivalent.

• Experience with software testing methodologies.

• Knowledge of CICD orchestration tools like Jenkins.

• You are eager to improve and have developed side projects.

• You have tackled high availability and scalability issues.

What's in it for you?

• You will work with the latest technologies.

• You will have ownership of projects working in a collaborative environment where we will value your contribution.

• You will work in an agile environment able to react quickly to changes with a fairly flat hierarchy.

• As we encourage continuous learning, we will support your ongoing training.

• Diversity is in our DNA! You will work in an international environment (over 29 nationalities and 24 languages spoken!)

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.