SeniorPythonDeveloper

Who Are We? The Motley Fool is a purpose-driven financial services company on a mission to make the world smarter, happier, and richer. For 30 years, we’ve been helping people make better investment decisions through transparency, education, and a healthy dose of Foolish fun. We’re a fast-moving, collaborative team that values high-quality work, curiosity, and initiative. We care deeply about what we do, and we’re driven by the impact our work has on real people’s financial futures. What Does This Team Do? Our Commerce and Messaging (Customer Engagement) tech team is at the epicenter of The Motley Fool’s subscription business. All revenue transactions, subscription-related events, and marketing, product, and retention communications flow through the systems that this team manages. We have recently modernized our commerce stack to Python, FastAPI, and Stripe, and we are currently migrating our remaining messaging stack from legacy .NET to modern Python, while streamlining our Braze setup. What Will You Do in This Role? The Python Developer plays a critical role in driving our commerce and communication infrastructure forward. You will collaborate closely with other developers, product owners, and business stakeholders to design, build, and optimize critical transactional and messaging pipelines that support our global membership base. Okay, but what will you actually do in this role? Develop new features for our core commerce and customer engagement platforms. Work directly with stakeholders to iterate and get rapid feedback on feature development. Appropriately use AI tools like Claude Code and multi-agent workflows on a daily basis to assist with planning and implementation. Ensure our critical transactional and event systems have high availability, durability, accuracy (since money is on the line), and remain highly performant. Build and enhance admin tooling and workflows that enable our internal business stakeholders to be more self-sufficient. Ensure features m