Backend Engineer - Python
Location: Remote
Experience: 3+ years
Employment Type: Full-Time
About DiligenceVault
At DiligenceVault , we've built the leading technology platform transforming how due diligence is conducted globally.
Our platform helps organizations streamline and digitize highly manual diligence workflows through automation, data intelligence, and scalable infrastructure. Today, our network includes over 100,000 users across 150+ countries, helping firms improve efficiency, transparency, and decision-making at scale.
We are growing rapidly and looking for exceptional engineers who enjoy solving complex technical problems and building systems that operate at global scale.
Our engineering culture values:
- Strong ownership and accountability
- Deep technical thinking and attention to detail
- Clean, scalable, maintainable engineering
- Continuous iteration and improvement
- Open collaboration and respectful technical debate
We are a team of smart, motivated, and curious builders passionate about creating products users genuinely love.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend / Infrastructure with strong problem-solving ability, design thinking, and engineering depth to help build and scale our core platform and backend systems.
You’ll work on backend services, distributed systems, workflow automation, infrastructure tooling, real-time systems, and platform reliability while collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.
This is a high-ownership role with opportunities to contribute across architecture, scalability, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, performance optimization, and engineering standards.
What You'll Do
- Design and build scalable backend systems and APIs using Python
- Develop distributed services and infrastructure tooling
- Improve system scalability, reliability, and performance
- Work with SQL and NoSQL databases across high-volume workloads
- Build and maintain CI/CD and deployment workflows
- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability solutions
- Troubleshoot production issues and optimize system performance
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and QA teams in an agile environment
What We’re Looking For
Required
- 2.6+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong proficiency in Python and Object-Oriented Design
- Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, data structures, and system design
- Experience building production-grade backend systems and APIs
- Good understanding of distributed systems and scalable architectures
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, networking, CI/CD, and DevOps workflows
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Passion for writing elegant, maintainable, and scalable code
Nice to Have
- Experience with workflow automation or real-time messaging systems
- Experience with ElasticSearch / ELK stack and Redis
- Experience optimizing performance across databases, APIs, or distributed systems
- Exposure to Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
- Familiarity with authentication systems (JWT, OAuth, SSO, SAML)
- Experience building parsers, scraping tools, or automation systems
- Familiarity with automated testing and observability tooling
- Exposure to machine learning workflows or data pipelines
- Experience with MSSQL and MongoDB
- Experience with C / C++
- Experience in a B2B SaaS or fintech environment
Why Join DiligenceVault?
- Opportunity to work on a product used globally by top investment teams
- Supportive, growth-minded engineering culture
- Competitive Compensation
- Medical Insurance
- Wellness Reimbursement
- Generous Paid Time Off Policy
- Work from Home
- Exciting Team Offsites
- Reward & Recognition Program