Backend Software Engineer (Python) — Threat Intelligence & Security Platform

Posted 3 days ago

gambit technologiesNew York (NY)

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About the role

Backend Software Engineer (Python) — Threat Intelligence & Security Platform New York, NY (Hybrid) Want your Python to protect one of the world's most critical financial platforms? A leading global financial-technology firm is hiring a backend engineer for its Threat Intelligence & Forensics team to modernize the systems that store, source, and correlate threat data across the enterprise. This is deep backend work — schema design, clean API interfaces, a company-wide IAM rollout, and a new client library that becomes the drop-in standard for security teams across the organization.

What you'll do:

Design database schemas and migrate to internally managed relational stores
Build and evolve REST APIs and middleware
Refactor services to consume clean APIs and shed direct DB coupling
Ship a new IAM-aware client library used across multiple security teams
Own testing (unit → e2e) and performance tuning under load
What you bring
Strong Python (the core requirement)REST APIs, relational + NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)
Linux + distributed systems, CI/CD, debugging, performance optimization

Bonus: Redis, Solr/OpenSearch

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