Senior Backend Engineer, Tieto Banktech (m/f/d)

Senior Backend Engineer - Tieto Banktech (m/f/d)

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who wants to be part of Tieto Banktech. Tieto Banktech is the leading financial services software and solution partner in the Nordics. We offer modular, pre-integrated banking as a service solutions and market-leading software for core, payments, credit, cards, financial fraud, and wealth. With our scale, expertise, and specialization, we empower financial institutions to enhance agility, efficiency, and accelerate digital transformation.

You will join Tieto Banktech Financial Crime Prevention (FCP), a department dedicated to combating financial crime through innovative AI-driven solutions. FCP delivers end-to-end fraud and AML services to over 130 European banks. As part of the FCP team, you will contribute to the development of our AI-driven product line.

When joining Tieto Banktech as a Senior Backend Engineer

• You join a skilled team of AI engineers and data scientists, where you learn new things with your colleagues
• You will design and build scalable, high-performance backend systems, ensuring robust API integrations and secure data processing pipelines
• You will collaborate closely with data scientists and product teams to translate business requirements into efficient, maintainable backend solutions
• You will implement and maintain modular architectures using modern Python best practices
• You will optimize data workflows to ensure secure, compliant handling of data
• You will contribute to testing strategies and advocate for code quality and observability
• You will stay updated on emerging technologies and drive innovation in our Python-based systems

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in backend development in Python
• FastAPI/Starlette (routes, middleware, ASGI, CORS, HTTP lifecycle)
• Data engineering: dataframe operations, SQL, async data processing
• Security technologies and best practices
• You are fluent in English, both verbally and in writing 

As a person, we believe you are a team player who takes action and demonstrates responsibility to organize your work and solve your tasks. With our agile end-to-end development process, you will continue to both learn from, and coach your colleagues, so communication is important for us. Technology is developing fast, so learning new cutting-edge technologies is something you strive to do.

We offer

We offer you professional growth, meaningful projects, open culture and an outstanding work-life balance! We offer you an opportunity to create the future of a growing, fast-developing and important sector. We believe that our organizational culture is an important part of enabling you to be successful. We provide a flexible hybrid work model as part of our culture and way of working. Finally, we also believe in curiosity and learning as a lifestyle where you need to unlearn and relearn every day as new possibilities emerge.

Did we get you inspired? 

We look forward to your application!
Interviews will be held continuously, so we encourage you to apply today! For more information or questions, please contact Talent Acquisition team recruitmentinbanking@tietoevry.com

Hope to hear from you soon!

Location: Rīga - Verde, Roberta Hirša 1

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At Tieto, we believe in the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds, genders (m/f/d), and walks of life to join our team, as we believe that this fosters an inspiring workplace and fuels innovation. Our commitment to openness, trust, and diversity is at the heart of our mission to create digital futures that benefit businesses, societies, and humanity.

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