The Motley Fool

Senior Python Backend Developer

The Motley Fool

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $90 - $100 per hour

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

DjangoDockerMicroservicesPythonSQL

About the role

  • Develop The Motley Fool’s investing microservices.
  • Build systems and data vital to our investing products, websites, tools, and subscribers.
  • Integrate with various third-party providers and tools.
  • Ensure that critical data remains fresh, accurate, and highly available with failover capabilities.
  • Collaborate with the product owner and project manager to define work, value, and acceptance criteria.
  • Partner with multiple in-house teams and external providers to launch customer-facing solutions.
  • Utilize AI tools like Claude or GitHub Copilot to support the team (e.g., developing architectural concepts and diagrams, starter code, and automated tests).
  • Review code and be part of an on-call rotation

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in building, delivering, enhancing, and maintaining APIs consumed by multiple systems using Python-based frameworks like FastAPI 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.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
PythonFastAPIDjangoAPIsdata cachingasynchronous data retrievalrelational databasesSQLDockerCI/CD
Soft skills
problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationtranslating business goalsworking in high-performance teams