Hands-On Backend Team Lead

About fintastic:

fintastic is on a mission to reinvent financial planning and analysis for the modern enterprise. We've built the most advanced and scalable FP&A platform on the market, already replacing legacy giants like Anaplan and Workday Adaptive at companies such as Priceline, Gigamon, Scale AI, Nextech, and more. After years of deep technical investment, we launched commercially last year and are growing rapidly, backed by top-tier VCs and strategic operators.

We’re looking for curious, driven, and collaborative people to join us as we scale.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a hands-on Team Lead with at least 6 years of experience who possesses a deep understanding of Python, engineering practices for scale and Data systems, enthusiastic about building future-proof solutions, and cracking technical and product challenges.

The ideal candidate should have prior experience with Cloud systems, Web technologies, and data systems. 

As a core team member, and a technical leader, you will have the opportunity to be involved in strategy, product, and customer design solutions, in order to build a scalable and secure platform providing high end user experience to our business customers, while taking a major role in supporting and enabling our growth.

Key responsibilities:

• Hands on building of challenging backend production components, infrastructure and core functionalities, from projects research, design, testing and production monitoring.
• Troubleshooting technical challenges.
• Analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various backend system components.
• Implementing specific technical components or modules of the product, ensuring that the overall architecture aligns with the company's business objectives, in short-term and long-term vision.
• Conduct Design and Code Reviews in the team, making high-level design decisions, defining technical standards, and ensuring that the system architecture meets the company's requirements for scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Be involved in the definition & planning of new features, with the Product management team

Requirements:

• Very strong backend development experience, including significant work in python and AWS
• Significant experience in technical leadership in a startup environment
• Enthusiastic about code quality, architecture, design, testing, and performance.
• Hands on experience with designing, building, deploying and maintaining scalable production systems on the cloud.
• Very good understanding of critical production systems concepts - high availability, reliability, security and scalability
• Considerable familiarity with Cloud infrastructure, databases, docker, kubernetes & CI/CD.
• Experience as fullstack, or frontend implementation -  an advantage
• Experience in working with data. ETL experience - an advantage
• Past knowledge of financial analysis work - an advantage