Python API Developer

Position: Python API Developer (AI + Finance Domain)

Domain: Finance (Banking, Investments, Risk & Compliance)

Location: Remote

Type: Full-time

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Python API Developer with strong expertise in building scalable, secure APIs, along with AI/ML knowledge and finance domain experience.

The ideal candidate will design, develop, and optimize API-driven systems that integrate financial data platforms with AI-powered analytics and decisioning engines.

You will collaborate with AI engineers, data scientists, and finance SMEs to deliver

intelligent, high-performance solutions for trading, risk management, fraud detection,

regulatory compliance, and financial reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• API Development
• Design, build, and maintain RESTful & GraphQL APIs using Python (FastAPI,

Flask, Django REST).

• Ensure scalability, low-latency, and secure API communication for financial

applications.

• Implement authentication/authorization frameworks (OAuth2, JWT, SSO).
• AI & Data Integration
• Integrate APIs with AI/ML models (predictive risk models, fraud detection,

portfolio optimization).

• Work with data pipelines (ETL/ELT) to consume structured/unstructured

financial data.

• Enable real-time scoring/inference APIs for AI models.
• Finance Domain Use Cases
• Collaborate with finance SMEs to implement APIs for risk assessment,

compliance reporting, fraud detection, and predictive analytics.

• Build API endpoints that interface with market data providers, trading

systems, and regulatory platforms.

• DevOps & Security
• Implement API monitoring, logging, and performance optimization.
• Ensure compliance with financial data security standards (e.g., SOC2, PCI

DSS, GDPR).

• Automate CI/CD workflows for API deployment in cloud environments (AWS,

Azure, GCP).

• Collaboration
• Partner with data scientists to operationalize AI/ML models.
• Work closely with finance stakeholders to translate requirements into

technical solutions.

• Mentor junior developers on best practices for Python API and AI integration.

Required Skills & Experience

Core Technical

• Strong expertise in Python and modern API frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, Django

REST).

• Experience with API lifecycle management, performance tuning, and versioning.
• Knowledge of databases (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis) and ORMs

(SQLAlchemy, Django ORM).

• Familiarity with message brokers & streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• AI/ML Knowledge
• Understanding of ML model deployment (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Knowledge of AI integration patterns (batch inference, real-time APIs, vector

databases).

• Exposure to NLP in finance (sentiment analysis, document intelligence, chatbots).
• Git/GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Strong problem-solving and system design skills.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization

(Docker, Kubernetes).

Finance Domain

• Experience with financial datasets (trades, positions, risk, compliance, payments).
• Understanding of capital markets, investment banking, or fintech systems.
• Familiarity with risk models (VaR, credit risk, fraud detection) and regulatory

frameworks (Basel III, MiFID, AML/KYC).

• Financial model building

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience building AI-powered financial products (fraud detection,

algorithmic trading, robo-advisors).

• Exposure to LLM-based APIs (OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain) for finance

applications.

• Contributions to open-source projects or AI/FinTech communities.
• Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or Financial

Engineering.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Contractual / Temporary

Contract length: 24 months

Pay: ₹700, ₹1,000,000.00 per year

Experience:

• Python API Developer: 4 years (Required)
• Finance Domain: 4 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote