Lead Engineer II – Backend, Python

Best Egg

Lead Software Engineer II at Best Egg developing backend Python services for financial health tools. Collaborating with teams to enhance engineering solutions on AWS and APIs.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeWilmington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $100,000 - $135,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDjangoDockerFlaskKubernetesPostgresPythonRedis

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, and deliver high-quality backend Python services iteratively and incrementally.
Take ownership of key services and APIs—from hands-on coding through CI/CD, deployment to AWS, monitoring, and on-call support.
Contribute to backend observability using tools like Datadog for logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting.
Participate in technical design discussions and contribute architectural insights, working with senior leaders to shape solutions.
Ensure software follows modern engineering practices, including clean code, testing, automation, and modern backend architecture patterns.
Support continuous improvement in code quality, reliability, performance, and developer experience.
Translate business requirements into clear technical tasks and help validate assumptions and approaches.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3–7 years of professional backend software engineering experience.
Proficiency in Python at scale, including modern Python (3.13+), type hints, async/await, packaging, and a strong grasp of the standard library and the broader ecosystem.
Expertise with at least one major Python web framework (FastAPI preferred; Django or Flask also strong) and the patterns that make Python services reliable in production.
Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including building and operating production workloads on Lambda (serverless functions, event-driven architectures) and EKS (containerized services on Kubernetes).
Working knowledge of supporting AWS services such as API Gateway, SQS/SNS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and Secrets Manager.
Experience designing and building RESTful APIs
Working knowledge of PostgreSQL
Experience with Redis for caching, rate limiting
Experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes fundamentals (deployments, services, scaling, troubleshooting).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern release tooling; familiarity with GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy is a plus.
Experience with unit, integration, and contract testing (pytest or similar).
Experience working within mature, legacy codebases and contributing to incremental modernization efforts.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching program
Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short-term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company holidays
Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options
Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs
Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance, fitness center reimbursements, and many more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonFastAPIDjangoFlaskAWSPostgreSQLRedisDockerKubernetesCI/CD

Soft Skills

ownershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingtechnical designcontinuous improvementtranslating business requirements