Python Backend Engineer (Transcripts)
QuartrSweden13 hours ago
Full-timeRemote FriendlyEngineering, Information Technology
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Who We’re Looking For
Join Quartr as a Python Backend Engineer specialising in text processing to help us drive real-time, reliable data solutions for the finance industry.
Are you passionate about backend engineering, Python development, and working with large-scale text data? At Quartr, we are looking for a Python Backend Engineer to play a key role in scaling and improving our transcripts pipelines. If you love engineering robust software, extracting information from text, and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you!
Our transcripts team builds and maintains the pipelines that power one of Quartr’s most important data assets: transcripts. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers and product managers. This is an end-to-end role: design, build, and ship reliable backend systems that handle transcript ingestion, parsing, transformation, enrichment, and storage. Your work will provide the core data foundation that powers essential product features and drives future product development.
Why join Quartr
Do your life's work: We focus passionately on doing things with a very high quality across our entire organization.
Join the foundational team: We are still in the very early innings of what we believe to be a multi-decade journey.
Skin in the game: We truly believe in the power of incentives and in sharing the company's success with the team. Therefore, every employee is offered qualified stock options.
Rapid, global growth: Among our clients are some of the world's most influential companies in finance and tech. With proven products and a go-to-market strategy, we're steadily grabbing market share in a multi-billion-dollar industry.
Responsibilities
About Quartr
Every day, leading companies and financial institutions worldwide rely on Quartr to make better decisions faster. The product suite includes: Quartr API, enabling third parties to build custom solutions powered by Quartr's unique live earnings calls and transcription technology, and its extensive global database of IR material – including public company filings, archived earnings call transcripts, and slide deck presentations. Quartr Pro, a desktop research platform that increases efficiency and precision in qualitative public market research for top hedge funds, asset managers, equity research departments, and IR professionals. A free mobile app allowing users to always stay informed and conduct research anytime, anywhere.
Join Quartr as a Python Backend Engineer specialising in text processing to help us drive real-time, reliable data solutions for the finance industry.
Are you passionate about backend engineering, Python development, and working with large-scale text data? At Quartr, we are looking for a Python Backend Engineer to play a key role in scaling and improving our transcripts pipelines. If you love engineering robust software, extracting information from text, and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you!
Our transcripts team builds and maintains the pipelines that power one of Quartr’s most important data assets: transcripts. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers and product managers. This is an end-to-end role: design, build, and ship reliable backend systems that handle transcript ingestion, parsing, transformation, enrichment, and storage. Your work will provide the core data foundation that powers essential product features and drives future product development.
Why join Quartr
Do your life's work: We focus passionately on doing things with a very high quality across our entire organization.
Join the foundational team: We are still in the very early innings of what we believe to be a multi-decade journey.
Skin in the game: We truly believe in the power of incentives and in sharing the company's success with the team. Therefore, every employee is offered qualified stock options.
Rapid, global growth: Among our clients are some of the world's most influential companies in finance and tech. With proven products and a go-to-market strategy, we're steadily grabbing market share in a multi-billion-dollar industry.
Responsibilities
- Build scalable systems for transcript ingestion, processing, and enrichment from diverse text sources.
- Optimise backend performance for high-volume, text-heavy workloads and parallel processing.
- Work on text processing and information extraction: entity recognition, metadata enrichment, and semantic structuring of transcripts.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape features from concept to release, ensuring outstanding user experiences.
- Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines to ensure smooth operation and timely data delivery
- 3+ years of professional experience building robust backends in Python, preferably for large-scale or data-intensive systems.
- Proven experience developing and maintaining REST APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
- Familiarity with asynchronous programming and distributed processing.
- Ability to explain code and technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to propose durable, simple solutions to complex problems
- Hands-on experience with AWS services like Lambda, EC2, ECS, and S3
- Knowledge of ETL processes, large-scale data pipeline management, and workflow tools like Apache Airflow; experience handling streaming or batch data ingestion
- Experience with Docker for deploying and managing backend services
- Good understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or similar).
- Experience with document/text ingestion libraries or frameworks (bonus if you’ve worked with speech-to-text outputs).
- Self-driven, proactive, and confident in taking full ownership of projects.
- A keen interest in NLP, speech-to-text, or large-scale text pipelines is advantageous.
- Comfortable learning new technologies and eager to improve products and processes.
- Balance pragmatism and craftsmanship, knowing when to move quickly and when to build for long-term scalability - even in complex systems with many interdependent components.
- Communicate clearly and effectively, thriving in a high-paced, collaborative environment
- Competitive salary
- Company option plan
- Top-notch equipment of your choice
- Wellness allowance
- Occupational pension
- Flexible work arrangements (remote or hybrid in Stockholm/Gothenburg)
- Must be based in Sweden with a valid work permit
About Quartr
Every day, leading companies and financial institutions worldwide rely on Quartr to make better decisions faster. The product suite includes: Quartr API, enabling third parties to build custom solutions powered by Quartr's unique live earnings calls and transcription technology, and its extensive global database of IR material – including public company filings, archived earnings call transcripts, and slide deck presentations. Quartr Pro, a desktop research platform that increases efficiency and precision in qualitative public market research for top hedge funds, asset managers, equity research departments, and IR professionals. A free mobile app allowing users to always stay informed and conduct research anytime, anywhere.
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