Sr. Python Backend Engineer (Work from Home)

About iBusiness Funding:

iBusiness Funding is a leading provider of innovative SaaS solutions for banks and lenders, specializing in SBA lending. We build scalable lending platforms that streamline the business lending process, enabling lenders to efficiently provide capital to small and medium-sized businesses. We've processed over $7 billion in SBA loans and handle over 1,000 business loan applications daily. Our team is guided by innovation, integrity, enjoyment, and a family-like atmosphere. As a top five SBA 7(a) preferred lender, our parent company also offers SBA express and small loan capabilities. Join us and be part of a team transforming the finance industry!

The Role:

This is a technical role encompassing a wide range of development tasks. Your main goal will be delivering reliable, scalable solutions for web applications on a cloud infrastructure. We're seeking leaders who can plan, design, build, and maintain APIs for data extraction and machine learning model inference (MLOps). You'll work on scripting backends, databases, CI/CD, containers, and other development tasks. We need a flexible, self-motivated individual with a proven track record of delivering impactful results as part of a team.

Responsibilities: 💼

• Collaborate with architects, developers, QA, DevOps, and product owners to solve complex problems.
• Be a founding and contributing member of our full-stack development team.
• Participate in daily stand-up meetings and weekly work demos.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Maintain development and production environments and deploy changes effectively.

Qualifications: 🎯

• Required:
  • 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
  • Strong Python and serverless experience.
  • Proven experience designing JSON schemas.
  • Extensive experience with AWS cloud services (CloudWatch, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, S3, SES, SQS, SNS, RDS).
  • Strong API creation skills from scratch.
  • Solid understanding of database technologies (DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, SQL), schema design, and development.
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot logs efficiently.
  • Extensive experience with Git.
  • Strong CI/CD, DevOps, and container experience.
  • Experience documenting code.
  • Team-oriented approach.
• Bonus Points:
  • MLOps experience.
  • ETL pipeline experience.
  • Team leadership experience.
  • JIRA experience.