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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** AHU Technologies Inc
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Payment Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Redis, Web Applications, Backend, Fastapi, Restful APIs
- **Published:** September 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_daea24911

## About the Role

* 5+ years building and shipping web applications in Python, Go, or Rust
 * Experience generally across the backend: working with Postgres, Redis, AWS, etc.

Bonuses
You might be an especially good fit if you have:

 * Experience in financial technology
 * Full-stack engineering skillset and ability to flex across other parts of the stack

## Description

We're seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to lead our core product development. Our backend serves a REST API that powers our iOS, Android, and Web frontends. You will integrate with cryptocurrency wallet and banking service providers, among other services for auth, ledger, payment rails, etc.

This is a financial services application with significant complexity handling real money at scale, internationally.

Our backend is a Python (FastAPI) monolith supported by Postgres and Redis on AWS. We are open to Rust and/or Go for any services that need to be broken out for performance.


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