Senior Backend Engineer - Remote

Lendica is an AI finance platform transforming supply chains across the tens of millions of private businesses in the US. Its suite of AI-powered financing tools seamlessly embed into SMB workflows, injecting capital on demand. Lendica’s products enable clients to access optimized financial strategy, automate collection and payment workflows, and receive real-time supply chain insights, revolutionizing finance departments and creating a new category of financial services.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Back End Engineer to join our team and play a critical role in ensuring the stability, performance, and scalability of our core platform. This role will focus on optimizing our lending system, payment processing process, designing and implementing API improvements, and leading technical architecture decisions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Python and Django, a deep understanding of database optimization, and a proven track record of leading technical projects.

What You’ll Do

• Optimize and Scale Core Lending Systems: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, improve reliability, and ensure the security of our lending and payment processing infrastructure.

• Design and Implement API Routes: Develop and maintain robust and efficient RESTful APIs to support our growing product offerings.

• Refactor Deal Calculation Library: Improve the efficiency and maintainability of our deal calculation library, ensuring accurate and timely calculations.

• Improve Database Performance: Optimize database queries, schema design, and indexing to enhance overall system performance.

• Participate Technical Architecture Decisions: Collaborate with the team to define and implement scalable and maintainable architectural solutions.

• Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and participate in Agile development processes.

What You’ve Done

• 5+ years of professional Python development experience

• Strong expertise in the Django framework

• Advanced knowledge of SQL and database optimization techniques

• Proven experience in REST API design and development

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects and mentor junior engineers

• Experience with Docker and containerization technologies

• Experience in AWS Infrastructure, such as ECS, Lambda, RDS a plus

• Hands-on experience with lending/payment processing systems a plus

• Experience with microservices architecture a plus

• Familiarity with data science and engineering tools such as Pandas, scikit-learn, Retool, Airflow, Hubspot, and Confluent a plus

Our Tech Stack

• Backend - Django, Airflow, Postgres 

• Frontend - React

• Infrastructure - Docker, ECS, Airflow, Pulumi or Terraform, Github Action, Prometheus/Grafana

• CRM - Hubspot

• Others - Retool, Google Analytics

The expected salary range is 20-35k per month, depending on qualifications and experience.

Salary: 20K - 33K CNY a month