Senior Backend Python Engineer
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Full-time
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- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- ✅ 5+ years software development experience
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
🚨 HIRING: Senior Backend Python Developer | Toronto, ON
We're looking for a Senior Backend Python Developer to join a team building secure, scalable, high-performance platforms for a core banking environment, candidates who have hands-on experience building production web applications/platforms with Python as their primary backend language.
📍 Toronto, ON | (5 days On-site)
🔥 What we're looking for:
✅ Strong professional Python backend development
✅ 5+ years software development experience
✅ Django / Flask / FastAPI or similar Python frameworks
✅ Microservices & distributed systems
✅ RESTful API development
✅ SQL & MySQL
✅ Strong understanding of transactions, isolation levels, locking & deadlocks
✅ RabbitMQ or similar messaging systems
✅ Docker / containerized applications
✅ Git / GitHub
✅ Linux / Unix
✅ System design & technical design
✅ Experience owning features end-to-end
⭐ Nice to have:
- Banking / Financial Services / FinTech
- AWS / Azure / GCP
- High-volume transaction processing
- Payroll integrations
- Time & Attendance platforms
🚀 What you'll work on:
🔹 Design and build scalable Python backend services
🔹 Develop distributed microservices and REST APIs
🔹 Design solutions for high-volume transaction processing
🔹 Own initiatives from technical design → development → production
🔹 Optimize performance and reliability
🔹 Participate in architecture and system-design discussions
🔹 Conduct code reviews and mentor junior engineers
🔹 Work closely with product, engineering and cross-functional teams
📩 Interested or know someone who would be a great fit?
Please send your updated resume to: 📧 yashvi.shah@apexon.com
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Responsibilities
Design and build scalable Python backend services and distributed microservices for a core banking environment. Own features from technical design through to production while mentoring junior engineers and optimizing system performance.
Requirements
Requires over 5 years of software development experience with strong professional proficiency in Python and frameworks like Django, Flask, or FastAPI. Candidates must have expertise in SQL, microservices, and containerized applications using Docker.
Skills
- Python
- Django
- Flask
- FastAPI
- Microservices
- Distributed Systems
- RESTful API
- SQL
- MySQL
- RabbitMQ
- Docker
- Git
- Linux
- System Design
- Technical Design
- Backend Development
Visa sponsorship
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Hiring contact
Yashvi Shah
Hiring contact email
yashvi.shah@apexon.com
Categories
- Software
- Technology
- Engineering
- Finance & Accounting
- Consulting
Keywords
- Python
- Backend
- Django
- Flask
- FastAPI
- Microservices
- Distributed Systems
- REST API
- SQL
- MySQL
- RabbitMQ
- Docker
- Git
- GitHub
- Linux
- Unix
- System Design
- Banking
- FinTech
- Financial Services
- High-volume Transaction Processing
- Payroll Integrations
- Time & Attendance Platforms
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Software Engineering
- Core Banking
- Technical Design
- Performance Optimization