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Capital.com

Python Backend Engineer

Capital.com
United Arab Emirates · Full-time · Entry

We are a leading trading platform that is ambitiously expanding to the four corners of the globe. Our top-rated products have won prestigious industry awards for their cutting-edge technology and seamless client experience. We deliver only the best, so we are always in search of the best people to join our ever-growing talented team.

Our Backend Engineering team plays a pivotal role in ensuring the robustness, speed, and security of our Product. Dedicated to enhancing performance, providing a best-in-class user experience, ensuring compliance, and safeguarding data, the team’s efforts directly impact our ability to offer clients a seamless and secure trading journey.

We are seeking a skilled Python Backend Engineer to join our growing team. You will be responsible for developing and optimising our backend systems that power our Product. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our systems, with a focus on enhancing the performance and user experience for our clients.

Experience & Domain Knowledge:

  • Backend: Strong understanding of distributed applications and client-server model
  • Financial Applications Proficiency: Experience in FinTech, Banking, or similar areas is a must
  • Scalability Technologies: Knowledge about technologies that allow for platform scaling to handle sudden influxes of user activities or transactions
  • High-Performance Platforms: Experience in designing, building, and optimising high-performance systems is a plus
  • Security: Knowledge of potential threats and security measures for transactional data is a plus

Technical skills:

  • Python: Strong experience with Python and satellites (Flask, Requests, FastAPI, REST-Api, peewee, pandas)
  • Database Mastery: Strong SQL knowledge (PostgreSQL)
  • Version Control & Development Practices: Proficiency in Git Flow, Docker containerization, TDD/BDD
  • Operational Proficiency: Understanding and hands-on experience in SDLC, Kubernetes, pipelines, CI/CD patterns and strategies, ongoing support (Grafana, Kibana)
  • Cloud Platforms: Understanding of the Cloud Native applications principles and basic knowledge of resources and use cases for public cloud (AWS, Azure, and GCP)
  • Events streaming: Understanding of the event driven architecture (Kafka or similar solutions)
  • Business level proficiency in English or above (equivalent to B2 or above in CEFR)

Soft skills:

  • Communication: Effective communication skills, especially with teams responsible for security, operations, and product
  • Analytical thinking: Ability to tackle and investigate complicated problems and convert them to the task
  • Adaptability to Rapid Changes: Demonstrated capability to adjust to quick technological shifts and evolving business requirements
  • Ownership and Accountability: Readiness to take ownership of tasks, and issues as well as demonstrate accountability for the results and outcome

Nice to have:

  • Trading Systems: This would be a plus to have experience in developing core trading services, implementing real-time financial trading services, risk-based calculation algorithms, and designing low-latency, high-availability service
  • Crypto: Understanding and practical experience of blockchain fundamentals and platforms
  • Performance: Knowledge of JVM performance optimization practices
  • Third-party systems: Proficiency in MetaTrader platform development and integration

What you will get in return:

  • Competitive Salary: We believe great work deserves great pay! Your skills and talents will be rewarded with a salary that makes you feel valued and motivated.
  • Work-Life Harmony: Join a company that genuinely cares about you—because your life outside of work matters just as much as your time on the clock.
  • Annual Performance Bonus: Your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed! Celebrate your achievements with a well-deserved annual bonus tied to your performance.
  • Generous Time Off: Need a breather? Our annual leave policy lets you recharge and enjoy life outside of work without a worry.
  • Employee Referral Program: Love working here? Share the love! Bring your talented friends on board and get rewarded for growing our awesome team.
  • Comprehensive Health & Pension Benefits: From medical insurance to pension plans, we’ve got your back. Plus, location-specific benefits and perks!
  • Workation Wonderland: Live your digital nomad dreams with 30 extra days to work remotely from anywhere in the world (some restrictions apply). Adventure awaits!
  • Volunteer Days: Make a difference! Take two additional paid days each year to support causes you care about and give back to the community.

Be a key player at the forefront of the digital assets movement, propelling your career to new heights! Join a dynamic and rapidly expanding company that values and rewards talent, initiative, and creativity. Work alongside one of the most brilliant teams in the industry.

[Applicable only to candidates from Poland]: Our company has an Internal Reporting Procedure. It is available from the Human Resources Department upon request [email protected]. You may report a violation referred to in the Procedure under the terms specified therein.

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Posted
Dec 31, 2024
Type
Full-time
Level
Entry
Location
Dubai

Industries

Financial Services

Categories

Engineering Information Technology

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