Python Developer — Build the Engine Behind a Fintech Product

We have a working prototype. Now we need someone to turn it into a real product.
PulseTheta is a Germany-based fintech company building analytics and backtesting software for systematic, rules-based strategies in the stock and options markets. The prototype works — it just wasn't built to last. That's where you come in.
You'd be one of our first hires, working directly with the founder. No layers, no ticket queue, no waiting three weeks for a decision. You build something, it ships, it gets used.
What the job actually is
You'll own the backend. Python services and data pipelines, automated jobs that have to run correctly every single day, databases that need to be modelled properly rather than grown by accident, external data APIs that lie to you occasionally and need to be caught doing it.
You'll also work on the dashboard — React and TypeScript, data-heavy tables and charts. Not pixel-pushing, but the interface where all that backend work becomes visible and useful.
Who we're looking for
Strong, production-level Python. This is the heart of the role.
You've built data pipelines and scheduled workloads that other people depend on
Solid SQL, and you can design a schema — not just query one
Comfortable with large datasets and analytical queries
React + TypeScript at a working level: enough to build and extend a dashboard
You own features end to end, from database to interface
You don't trust your own numbers until you've checked them twice. In this domain, a wrong number that looks right is worse than a crash.
Independent, reliable, and you write code the next person can read
Nice to have
Workflow orchestration and job scheduling
Columnar or analytical data formats
Containerization and deployment automation
Financial or time-series data
You use AI tools seriously in your work — we do too
What you get
Real ownership from day one, not in your third year
A founder who knows the domain and writes the specs himself
Fully remote, based in the Davao Region
A product that's actually being used, not a slide deck
Based in or around Cebu City preferred.

Work arrangement
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