Senior Backend Software Engineer (Python)

Join Grover, a market leader in the subscription technology space, as a Senior Backend Software Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the systems that drive risk decision-making for subscription orders. You will work closely with risk analysts, data scientists, and product teams to optimize approval rates while minimizing fraud and defaults. This is a fully-remote/hybrid position with opportunities for career growth and a diverse global team.

• Conception, development, and maintenance of the risk decisioning platform, including the rule engine, experiments, and decision APIs.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams, including risk analysts, data scientists, and product managers, to enhance approval rates while minimizing fraud and defaults.
• Ownership of services in production, managing their full lifecycle, from cross-service debugging to monitoring, and ensuring reliability and observability.

• Treat testing as a core part of development; be comfortable writing unit and end-to-end tests and owning the quality of what you ship
• Be comfortable with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, and able to work with Terraform
• Bonus points: Fintech, payments, lending, fraud or credit-risk experience; rule engines or ML in production; LLM tooling; Rust, Rails or Vue; German
• Have owned services in production and managed their full lifecycle, from cross-service debugging to monitoring
• Have hands-on experience with event-driven systems such as Kafka and with PostgreSQL
• Enjoy working with non-engineers, explain technical trade-offs simply, and stay calm when priorities shift
• Care about the “why” behind the code, keeping the end user and business impact in mind
• Have experience designing REST and/or GraphQL APIs and integrating third-party APIs
• Be comfortable participating in an on-call rotation
• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with Python in production as your main language, and comfort working 90% on the backend and 10% on the frontend