Job Overview
The primary focus of this role is to design, build, and maintain the EMFI Data Application Platform, a financial analytics application. The successful candidate will work across the full stack to deliver reliable, performant, and secure data products.
Reports To: Director, Data and AI – Embedded Finance
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to translate business and analytical requirements into well-defined backend features and data products.
- Design and deploy scalable microservices within the FastAPI ecosystem, establishing clear service boundaries and well-defined API contracts.
- Design and develop Snowflake-native applications using Snowpark (Python), stored procedures, Tasks, Streams, and Dynamic Tables.
- Build day-end processing engines that run natively within the Snowflake compute layer.
- Design and implement RESTful API endpoints using FastAPI, with clearly defined, versioned, and documented API contracts using OpenAPI/Swagger.
- Write and optimize SQL queries against Snowflake and PostgreSQL for reporting, aggregation, and analytical use cases.
- Own end-to-end feature delivery, from requirements gathering and API contract definition through implementation, testing, and deployment.
- Implement platform security best practices, including authentication, authorization/RBAC, input validation, and safe error handling aligned with OWASP Top 10.
Technical Skills
- Strong experience designing and implementing microservices architectures, including service discovery, inter-service communication, API versioning, distributed tracing, and logging/observability.
- Proficiency in Python backend development, including FastAPI async patterns and Pydantic-based data validation.
- Strong SQL and analytical database experience, including optimized queries, aggregations, and data transformations.
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake-native development, including:
- Snowpark
- Stored Procedures (JavaScript/Python)
- Tasks
- Streams
- Dynamic Tables
- Strong understanding of REST API design and OpenAPI specifications.
- Knowledge of authentication and authorization patterns, including JWT, OAuth2, and RBAC.
- Experience with Docker and Docker Compose.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
- Strong Git experience, including branching strategies and code review workflows.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree; Master’s preferred, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years of professional full-stack development experience with demonstrated delivery of production-grade web applications.
- Payments or fintech industry experience is a strong asset.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple concurrent workstreams, and deliver with minimal oversight.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong professional ethics and integrity.
