Sr. Python Engineer

About iBusiness Funding

iBusiness Funding is a software and lender service provider specializing in small business lending. Our technology, team, and process enable us to support loans from $10,000 to $25 million for our lending partners. Our technology solutions have been proven to quickly scale our clients’ portfolios without the need for additional overhead. Our flagship product, LenderAI, features end-to-end lending functionality from sales all the way through servicing

To date, we’ve processed over $11 billion in small business loans and handle more than 1,000 business loan applications daily. Our team is driven by our core values of innovation, integrity, enjoyment, and family.

Join us and be part of a team that’s transforming the finance industry and empowering businesses to thrive!

Position Description:

 
The Python Backend Engineer is a technical role responsible for a broad range of development tasks. The overall objective of this role is to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in the context of web applications on a cloud infrastructure.

We’re looking for leaders. You will be required to plan, architect, build and maintain APIs for data extraction and machine learning model inference tasks (MLOps). You will be expected to work on scripting backends, databases, CI/CD, containers, and other dev related tasks. We will need someone who is a flexible self-starter that has experience delivering impactful results with a team.
Major Areas of Responsibility:

• Work closely with Architects, Developers, QA, DevOps and Product Owners to solve complex problems
• Be a founding and contributing member of our full-stack development team
• Attend daily stand-up meetings with development team and demo your work each week
• Thrive in an agile, fast-paced environment
• Maintain development and production environments and properly deploy changes

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 5+ years’ experience as a Software Engineer
• Strong experience with Python, Serverless
• Strong experience with designing JSON schemas
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services. Cloudwatch, Lambda, Dynamo, API Gateway, S3, SES, SQS, SNS, RDS
• Strong experience creating APIs from scratch
• Solid knowledge of Database technologies (Dynamo, PostgreSQL, SQL) and database schema design and development
• Strong experience with logs and ability to troubleshoot efficiently
• Strong experience with version source control (Git)
• Strong experience with CI/CD, devops, containers
• Experience with documenting code
• Team oriented

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• MLOps experience
• ETL Pipeline experience
• Team leadership
• JIRA experience

Conclusion:

This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.