Staff Python Engineer - Fintech

Job Overview

Ebury, a leading Fintech company, is seeking a highly experienced Staff Python Engineer to join our Trade Engine Engineering team. This role is based in our Madrid office and offers a hybrid work environment, allowing you to work four days in the office and one day from home.

Responsibilities

As a Staff Python Engineer, you will:

• Drive the development of the next iteration of our FX platform’s services, fostering collaboration in the development and delivery of new products while also enhancing and automating existing ones.
• Work closely with your team members and engineering leaders to architect new services and components.
• Lead the design and review of complex software architectures, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability of systems while balancing immediate business needs with long-term technical goals.
• Engage with cross-functional teams including product management, design, and operations to align engineering priorities with business objectives, ensuring all stakeholders are informed and engaged.
• Participate in strategic planning and decision-making regarding project timelines, resource allocation, and technological direction, contributing to the overall growth strategy of the engineering team.
• Coach and mentor less experienced team members, positively influencing the trajectory of the team to increase overall effectiveness and efficiency.
• Drive product initiatives from discovery to delivery, ensuring alignment with product and operational teams throughout the process.

Requirements

• Significant experience in developing complex software systems, ideally with 10+ years of professional programming experience, with a strong focus on Python.
• Familiarity with multiple programming paradigms and languages is an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken, as you will collaborate with colleagues from different countries.
• Deep understanding of distributed system concepts, microservices architecture, and cloud-based technologies to effectively contribute to cloud-native applications.
• Proficiency in constructing and managing services, including establishing standard APIs, integrating monitoring and alerting services, and expert integration with external systems.
• Comfort with legacy code, allowing you to maintain it and propose improvements once familiar with our workflows to help reduce technical debt.
• A strong commitment to quality, expecting your code to be testable and well-covered with unit and integration tests.
• Familiarity with CI Jenkins pipelines and Terraform for the deployment of services and infrastructure is a plus.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in guiding engineering teams through high-impact projects, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture.

Why Join Ebury?

Ebury is a hyper-growth FinTech firm, named in 2021 as one of the top 15 European Fintechs to work for by AltFi. We offer a range of products including FX risk management, trade finance, currency accounts, international payments, and API integration.

At Ebury, you will find an internal group dedicated to discussing how we can build a more diverse and inclusive workplace for all people in the Technology Team. We strongly encourage you to apply even if your background doesn’t match exactly the requirements in the job description. You may be just the right candidate for this or other positions we have.

Join us and be part of a diverse technology team that cares deeply about culture and best practices, and believes in agile principles. Contribute to our technical design through our open and collaborative Request For Comments (RFC) process. We are Open Source friendly, following Open Source principles in our internal projects and encouraging contributions to external projects.