The key focus areas remain:

- Strong Python backend development (FastAPI, microservices, REST APIs)
- Data development with SQL and Snowflake (Snowpark, Stored Procedures, Tasks, Streams, Dynamic Tables)
- Backend platform engineering, API design, and cloud-native development
- Ability to independently own end-to-end feature delivery

Responsibilities and Duties

- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to translate business and analytical requirements into well-defined backend features and data products.

- Design and deploy scalable microservices within the FastAPI ecosystem, establishing clear service boundaries for domain-specific services and ensuring loose coupling through well-defined API contracts.

- Design and develop Snowflake-native applications including Snowpark (Python), stored procedures, tasks, streams, and energetic tables to support day-end processing engines that run natively within the Snowflake compute layer.

- Design and implement RESTful API endpoints using FastAPI ensuring data contracts are clearly defined, versioned, and documented via OpenAPI/Swagger.

- Write and optimize SQL queries against Snowflake and PostgreSQL for reporting, aggregation, and analytical use cases.

- Own end-to-end feature delivery: from requirements gathering and API contract definition through implementation, testing, and deployment.

- Ensure platform security by applying best practices around authentication, authorization (RBAC), input validation, and safe error handling, aligned with OWASP Top 10.

Technical Skills

- Experience designing and implementing microservices architectures, including service discovery, inter-service communication, API versioning, and distributed tracing/logging for observability.





- Proficiency in Python for backend development, including FastAPI async patterns, and Pydantic-based data validation.

- Hands-on experience with SQL and analytical databases for writing optimized queries, aggregations, and data transformations.

- Experience developing Snowflake-native applications: stored procedures (JavaScript/Python), Tasks, Streams, Dynamic Tables, and Snowpark for building backend processing engines.

- Understanding of REST API design, OpenAPI specifications, and API integration patterns in frontend applications.

- Knowledge of authentication and authorization patterns including JWT, OAuth2, and role-based access control.

- Experience with Docker and Docker Compose for local development and containerized deployments.

- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.

- Experience with version control using Git, including branching strategies and code review workflows.

- Ability to work with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) for data storage, compute, and deployment.

Qualifications and Skills

- Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.

- 10+ years of professional full stack development experience, with demonstrated delivery of production-grade web applications.

- Experience in the Payments or Fintech industry would be a strong asset.

- Proven ability to work independently, manage multiple concurrent workstreams, and deliver with minimal oversight.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Unquestionable personal and business ethics and integrity.

📌 Python Backend Engineer (Snowflake) (Toronto)
🏢 New York Technology Partners
📍 Toronto