About the Job
FinOptimal is seeking a Full Stack Python Developer to join our fast-growing, Houston-based engineering team. The candidate will be responsible for the technical design, development, and deployment of our accounting and finance related SaaS products. They will be joining a small and rapidly growing early stage startup, where they will have a direct impact on the end-user product and future direction of the technology stack.
FinOptimal is looking for a highly motivated, highly collaborative self-starter who will own and drive the building of software products on an agile development team. This is a great opportunity to join a rapidly growing, early-stage startup on the ground floor.
Responsibilities
- The candidate will be responsible for the technical design, development, and deployment of our end-user products and in-house administrative site
- Participate in sprint planning and estimation
- Collaborate with stakeholders on requirements definition, feature design, & development
- Contribute to the design and development of new products and services
- Maintain a high level of quality for software delivery
- Support products and services in a production environment
Qualifications
- 5+ years of working experience building web applications using Django, Python, pandas, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, React, or Angular
- Undergraduate degree, preferably in Computer Science or related field.
- Working experience deploying and supporting software solutions in a distributed Linux-based production environment
- Working experience with relational databases, document databases, and cache stores
- Knowledgeable on best practices for the full software development life cycle, coding standards, code reviews, source control management with git and GitHub, build processes, CI/CD, testing, and ongoing operations
- Working experience with cloud-computing platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Experience with event-driven systems or microservices
- Experience with accounting and/or financial services a plus
Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Desire to automate everything
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Independent and self-driven
- Creative problem solver
- Knowledge of accounting and financial operations a major plus
Benefits
- FinOptimal offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% paid for premiums
- We offer flexible time off so that our employees can perform their best
- As a ground floor member of the team, employees are eligible for equity in the form of a generous stock options package
About FinOptimal
FinOptimal automates bookkeeping, financial operations, and dashboarding for small-to-medium size businesses. We utilize technology and process optimization to give superpowers to our accountants and generalists. Our technology allows our clients and our services team to unburden themselves from much of the manual work of downloading, uploading, categorizing, and booking transactions, supercharging their efficiency. If you love sparkling clean books, process optimization and care about a great company culture, FinOptimal is the place for you.
