Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

• About us

CoinLoan is an international fintech company established in 2017 and headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. We are one of the pioneers of crypto lending and the only platform that provides loans against digital assets.

In addition to Loans, we offer Interest Accounts, Crypto Exchange, and Wallet for managing assets.

More than 200 thousand customers worldwide use our services with 97% NPS and 341% YoY growth rate. The company complies with the current European and international financial regulations, ensuring corresponding safety and the highest protection standards.

Coinloan is a well-established company, but we still stick to the start-up spirit where each teammate is responsive, open-minded, and ready for a new challenge. We do not accept bureaucracy, undercover games, or toxic rudeness.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer interested in building the future alongside us.

Responsibilities

The Senior Backend Engineer will work with a team of experienced Software Engineers. You will have autonomy and support in solving real problems and creating a better product with each addition. It is a broad role in which you will:

• Design and implement new features end to end
• Solve problems related to scaling our product, ensuring security, and improving technical stability
• Maintain, and refactor existing functionality
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle and own your code: develop, review test, and deploy
• Code review and encourage good engineering practices within the team, ensuring the codebase is clean, readable, well-tested, and maintainable
• Work closely with other members of your product team (PMs, Designers, QAs, Analysts) to ensure the software works how it should
• Work in small, autonomous teams with short-release cycles

Requirements

• Summary 10+ years of experience in software development
• Full proficiency in Python, including Django/DRF, asyncio/aiohttp, etc.
• Good understanding and experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and RabbitMQ
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Git
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD (ideally GitLab)
• Experience with other languages (C++, Go, Rust, etc.) is a plus
• Experience in covering the internals of your application with metrics using Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana or similar tools

We offer

• Stable position at an established company in a booming industry
• Fair salary in Euro or Crypto
• Contribute from wherever you like – we are fully remote
• Flexible work schedule – we only hold ~3 calls per week
• Modern work equipment (MacBook, etc.)
• Cool and collaborative team of like-minded colleagues
• Professional development and career growth
• Participation in conferences, meetups, and hackathons; payment for courses
• You’ll get to take advantage of our flexible leave policy