Senior Backend Developer, Python

The Motley Fool

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Posted on: 8/27/2025

Location: Alabama, California, Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $80 - $105 per hour

Senior

AWSDjangoDockerFlaskJavaScriptMicroservicesNext.jsPostgresPythonReactRedisSQL

About the role

The Motley Fool is a purpose-driven financial media company focused on helping people make better investment decisions.
Develop and lead building of investing microservices and APIs using Python frameworks (FastAPI, Django, Flask).
Build systems and data used by investing products, websites, tools, and subscribers, including real-time market and crypto data.
Integrate with third-party providers and tools and ensure critical data freshness, accuracy, and high availability with failover capabilities.
Collaborate with product owners and project managers to define work, value, and acceptance criteria.
Partner with in-house teams and external providers to launch customer-facing solutions.
Utilize AI tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) for architecture, starter code, and automated tests.
Review code, participate in on-call rotation, and mentor/lead engineers.

5+ years of experience in building, delivering, enhancing, and maintaining APIs consumed by multiple systems using Python-based frameworks like Fast API and Django.
Experience building scalable, high performance backends served to hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users.
Significant experience in data caching and caching strategies.
Experience with asynchronous data retrieval and processing.
Experience working with relational databases, ORMs, and SQL.
Experience with query tuning and optimization.
Experience with Docker, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines.
Proficient in system monitoring and telemetry.
Ability to translate business goals and requirements into technical solutions.
Demonstrated success within high-performance teams where cross-functional collaboration is valued.
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
Nice-to-have: Experience in architecting and developing financial microservices.
Nice-to-have: Experience with Redis and Postgres.
Nice-to-have: Experience with AWS services including AWS SQS, AWS RDS, AWS Dynamo.
Nice-to-have: Familiarity with Next.js, React, and JavaScript.
Nice-to-have: Experience with portfolio aggregation services, such as Plaid.
Nice-to-have: Knowledge of investing.