Director, Financial Systems Engineering (Product & Platform)

About the role

The successful candidate will partner with Finance and Global Operations to build and evolve mission-critical accounting, data, and workflow platforms. They will lead architecture decisions and oversee a distributed contractor team.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality Python applications and backend systems.
• Build and maintain the front-end of web applications, ensuring seamless user experiences and robust performance.
• Work with relational and non-relational databases to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
• Develop and optimize asynchronous applications to enhance system performance and efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and improve both back-end and front-end system architecture.
• Implement best practices for cloud infrastructure management, with a focus on Azure (preferred, but not mandatory).
• Troubleshoot, optimize, and ensure the reliability of distributed systems.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor junior engineers to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices, and incorporate them into system designs.

Qualifications & Experience

• 9+ years of experience of software development.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience building scalable backend applications.
• Solid understanding and hands-on experience with relational (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, Snowflake) and non-relational (e.g., MongoDB) databases.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools in real-world environments, for example: Using tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Sourcegraph Cody (or similar) to design, write, refactor, and review production code and tests.
• Applying AI tools to improve developer productivity through workflows such as code generation, debugging, documentation, analysis, or automation (without requiring experience building or training LLMs).
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, with experience in deploying and managing applications in the cloud (Azure is a plus).
• Experience with designing and building highly available, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Proficient in debugging and troubleshooting complex system issues across the stack.
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles and best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, communication skills, and the ability to work effectively within a team.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Azure services (e.g., Azure Functions, Azure SQL Database, Azure Kubernetes Service).
• Front-end development skills using frameworks Vue.js.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices is a plus.