Backend Software Engineer

📝 Company Mission

Our mission is to give the world access to the best products by empowering great businesses to reach their growth potential.

💼 About Wayflyer

Today's SMBs need a capital provider that keeps pace with their growth ambitions. Traditional financing options are slow, cumbersome and often out of reach. That's why we built Wayflyer.

Our unique technology allows us to assess businesses in minutes, generate financing offers that reflect their growth potential and send funds in as little as 24 hours.

Since launching in April 2020, we've deployed over $5bn to thousands of businesses worldwide, backed by Tier 1 banks like J.P. Morgan. We've become a trusted financing partner for some amazing brands, like True Classic, Little Words Project and Kekoa Foods.

Teams at Wayflyer are truly cross-functional. You'll be collaborating with ambitious colleagues from around the world - all striving to deliver on a huge opportunity. Check out this video to hear directly from them.

💛 Culture & Values at Wayflyer

At Wayflyer, we value being sound people, excellent operators, and ambitious overachievers, working together with integrity, creativity, and bold optimism to deliver exceptional results. To learn more, please visit our website.

🚀 Your Role at a Glance: The key ways you'll bring value to the team

• Design and develop scalable backend services using Python and Django, focusing on our core financial products

• Build and maintain RESTful APIs that power our customer-facing applications and internal tools

• Implement robust data models and database schemas to support our financial services infrastructure

• Write clean, testable code with comprehensive unit and integration tests

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement new features and improvements

• Optimize application performance and ensure high availability of our services

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical documentation

• Monitor and maintain production systems, ensuring reliability and security

🔨 What Makes You a Great Fit

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

• 5+ years of professional experience in backend development with Python

• Strong proficiency in Django, or other Python API frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Flask)

• Experience with SQL databases (preferably PostgreSQL) and ORM frameworks

• Knowledge of API design principles and microservices architecture

• Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms

• Solid understanding of version control with Git

• Experience with testing frameworks (e.g., pytest, unittest)

• Understanding of security best practices and data protection

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail

• Excellent communication abilities and proven track record of successful team collaboration

What is important to point out is that you can do most or all of the above mentioned and can point to your real experience doing it. You've probably done it at companies of different shapes, sizes and industries. Given what we do, experience in financial services, fintech and business-to-business organisations is particularly interesting to us.

You should be comfortable making and defending technical decisions, while remaining open to feedback and alternative approaches. You'll need to balance technical excellence with business needs and help guide the team toward pragmatic solutions.

You excel at stakeholder management and can effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences. You're proactive in identifying and addressing potential issues before they become problems.

What you're like as a person and how you treat people is a big deal for us. People love working with you. You're helpful and generous with your time and knowledge. People love helping you back. People know where they stand with you.

You're always looking to learn and grow, on a per