Senior Back-End Software Engineer

MARCURA EQUITIES FZE

1. Build and own APIs that power onboarding, screening, and entity intelligence, ensuring performance, versioning, and auditability.

2. Expand product functionality by introducing new data-driven capabilities (search, risk scoring, relationship mapping, etc.) without compromising stability.

3. Integrate ElasticSearch for advanced query performance and analytics at scale.

4. Integrate with data or other platforms/services to support risk assessment and compliance automation.

5. Work closely with product managers, UX designers, and compliance specialists to align technical solutions with business goals.

6. Implement a shift-left testing approach, ensuring unit, integration, and end-to-end tests are embedded into the development lifecycle, with no reliance on separate testers or QA teams.

7. Implement industry best practices for secure coding, data privacy (GDPR), and compliance automation, ensuring regulatory alignment.

8. Ensure security, scalability, and maintainability of full-stack applications.

9. Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and security by establishing best practices for data modeling, ETL processes, and regulatory compliance (GDPR, ISO 27001) in data-driven applications

10. Stay up to date with emerging technologies in full-stack development, AI, and compliance automation, bringing forward innovative ideas to enhance products and processes

Core Engineering (Python / Django REST)

• Strong experience with Python, Django, Django REST Framework for API development.

• Experience with database design using Microsoft SQL Server (preferred) or similar.

• Knowledge of API security best practices, authentication (OAuth2, JWT), and role-based access control

• Familiarity with asynchronous task processing (Celery, Redis, or similar).

• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization skills.

• Comfortable in an agile, remote team environment, with peer programming, code reviews, and continuous integration.