Senior Python Backend Engineer, Madrid

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RavenPack is the leading big data analytics provider for financial services. Financial professionals rely on RavenPack for its speed and accuracy in analyzing large amounts of unstructured content. Our clients include the most successful hedge funds, banks, and asset managers in the world.

About Us

At RavenPack, we are at the forefront of developing the next generation of generative AI tools for the finance industry and beyond. With 20 years of experience as a leading big data analytics provider for financial services, we empower our clients—including some of the world's most successful hedge funds, banks, and asset managers—to enhance returns, reduce risk, and increase efficiency by integrating public information into their models and workflows. Building on this expertise, we are launching a new suite of GenAI and SaaS services, designed specifically for financial professionals.

Join a Company that is Powering the Future of Finance with AI

RavenPack has been recognized as the Best Alternative Data Provider by WatersTechnology and has been included in this year’s Top 100 Next Unicorns by Viva Technology. We have recently launched Bigdata.com, a next-generation platform aimed at transforming financial decision-making.

About the Role

RavenPack is seeking an experienced Senior Back-End Engineer, with proven experience working in fast moving, high-performance development squads, to participate in the technical design and development of AI agentic workflows and data-driven solutions on our bigdata.com product. This role offers the right candidate an opportunity in a team of engineers at the cutting edge of delivering scalable high performance solutions in collaboration with our ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers and Analytics specialists, ensuring best-in-class deliveries for our global organisation and clients.

This position is ideal for a skilled, hands-on, self-motivated and enthusiastic Senior Engineer, who will thrive in an exciting high-paced environment, in a cross-functional squad; building, deploying and iterating rapidly on a new product at the centre of the AI technology revolution.

Only candidates with EU legal working status will be considered. This role is available in our Marbella or Madrid office.

Key Responsibilities

1. Work in a cross-functional squad in a rapid, iterative, highly responsive, positive, motivational, product-focused environment.
2. Be self-motivated and have a desire to get things done.
3. Develop and maintain scalable, high-performance systems to support cutting-edge AI agentic workflows and data-driven solutions.
4. Maintain an outcome-oriented perspective in close collaboration with your Technical Lead and Product Manager, delivering and iterating on usable user workflows tip-to-tail.
5. Ensure clean, efficient, scalable and maintainable solutions & code, including robust testing and performance optimisation.
6. Keep up to date with advancements in software engineering, machine learning and AI, to recommend and incorporate leading technologies and practices into the organisation.

Qualifications

1. 3+ years of engineering experience with a focus on delivering real-world, scalable commercial solutions.
2. Python, REST API´s (Flask or similar), Relational & NoSQL experience, Swagger or similar.
3. Experience querying document-oriented & search databases like Elasticsearch etc.
4. Understanding of version control best practices.
5. Experience working with containerised solutions using Docker.
6. Hands-on experience with AWS (Lambda etc.) incl. microservices creation.
7. Quality and test automation experience. (unittest, Jmeter etc.)
8. Experience writing reliable, maintainable code for a commercial product.
9. Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and convey complex ideas clearly in English, both verbally and in writing.
10. Attention to detail with excellent problem solving skills.
11. An Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science or Equivalent.
12. Enthusiasm for ongoing learning and a willingness to cross-skill & expand your skills through the stack.
13. Java
14. Experience of trunk-based development in a continuous deployment software lifecycle with feature flags.
15. YQL with Vespa.ai
16. Hands-on experience with AI agent workflows.
17. Experience with LLM technologies and Machine Learning.
18. Supporting front-end experience. (ReactJS, Typescript, NodeJS, Git, MSWjs mocking framework or similar)
19. Financial industry experience.
20. Familiarity using LLM´s to accelerate day to day development.

What's in it for You?

International Culture: With its headquarters in Marbella, Spain, and presence in Madrid, New York and London, RavenPack takes pride in being a truly diverse global organization.

Best in Class: You will work with top engineers with experience using Python, Java, React and Lisp, on cutting-edge, innovative technology.

Competitive Salary: In RavenPack, we believe that your time and experience needs to be fairly rewarded.

Continuous learning: We provide the support needed to grow within the team.

Innovation: Innovation is the key to our success, so we encourage you to speak up and tell us about your vision.

Shuttle bus: From Malaga, Fuengirola, La Riviera, and Estepona is available for free from the company.

Diversity is in our DNA! You will work in an international environment (over 29 nationalities and 24 languages spoken!)