Hybrid Senior Platform Engineer, Tech Lead, Django, Go, React

at MyFundedFutures

• Job title: Senior Platform Engineer, Tech Lead, Django, Go, React
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Django, ElasticSearch, MySQL, Postgres, Python, React, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dallas, United States

About the role

• Hands-on engineer designing, building, and maintaining core backend systems at MyFunded Futures. Leading technical architecture and mentoring the engineering team in a fintech environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead across platform and backend engineering — owning architecture decisions, facilitating cross-team coordination, and ensuring consistent development standards.
• Design, build, and maintain core backend services and APIs using Django/Python and Go, with a focus on reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, security risks, and reliability gaps before they become production incidents.
• Mentor and develop engineers across the team — providing clear, constructive technical guidance and helping others grow in ownership and scope.
• Contribute to frontend development in React, particularly around platform integrations and internal tooling.
• Be a dependable presence on-call and in production — you take ownership of issues through to resolution and document your learnings as repeatable processes.

Requirements

• Strong ability to write well-structured, idiomatic, Python and Go with a deep understanding of the Django ecosystem.
• Hands-on experience integrating payment systems (Stripe, Worldpay, Braintree, or similar)
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical architecture discussions and produce clear, defensible design decisions with appropriate trade-off analysis.
• Experience with RESTful API design, WebSockets, and asynchronous/event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch) including schema design, query optimization, indexing and transactional integrity.
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and modern DevOps tooling.
• React (or similar) development experience — comfortable contributing to or reviewing frontend work within a full-stack platform context.
• Reliable and dependable – you follow through, communicate proactively, and treat your commitments seriously.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable driving alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits
• Performance-based incentives