Senior Backend Software Engineer, Fintech

AI overview

Drive the technical direction for a mission-critical FinTech platform, mentoring engineers while ensuring system performance and reliability in a high-paced environment.

We are seeking a seasoned backend engineer with a passion for building robust, scalable financial platforms.

Join our team to take technical ownership of high-impact features within our core financial product. You will leverage your expertise in financial systems and contribute to an engineering culture defined by ownership, product obsession, and relentless simplification. This is a chance to rapidly iterate on a mission-critical, in-house FinTech platform.

Responsibilities:

  • Platform Design & Architecture: Drive the technical direction and architecture for new features and core services within our financial platform, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
  • Feature Ownership: Take full ownership of high-impact features, writing clean, well-tested code in production environments.
  • System Health & Reliability: Participate in on-call rotations and incident response to maintain the stability and performance of our critical financial systems.
  • Mentorship & Growth: Foster a culture of constant learning by mentoring engineers through rigorous code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, sales, and marketing teams to translate customer needs into impactful, production-ready software.
  • Documentation: Enhance team knowledge and system maintainability by writing and improving runbooks and technical documentation.

Requirements

Core Technical Expertise

  • 5+ years of experience shipping production-quality backend software and building robust web applications.
  • Extensive experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
  • Direct experience with GraphQL, Postgres, and Serverless technologies on AWS.
  • Strong SQL debugging skills required to troubleshoot complex data and transaction issues.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

FinTech Systems Experience

  • Transaction Systems: Proven experience designing and supporting complex financial transaction systems within FinTech, banking, or payments environments.
  • Architecture: Deep understanding of event-driven and/or workflow-based architecture.
  • Integrations: Prior experience integrating with critical third-party systems (e.g., NetSuite, Salesforce, Modern Treasury, banking APIs).
  • Reliability Concepts: Practical understanding of key reliability concepts, including idempotency, retries, and comprehensive error handling.

Nice to Have

  • Accounting Knowledge: Familiarity with core accounting concepts (e.g., double-entry bookkeeping, ledgers, reconciliation).
  • Reconciliation: Experience developing reconciliation workflows and identifying data mismatches.
  • Advanced Tech: Experience with applying AI/ML techniques to improve workflows or leverage financial data.

Benefits

  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Retirement Plan (401k)
  • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
  • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
  • Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
  • Short Term & Long Term Disability
  • Training & Development
  • Work From Home
  • Wellness Resources
  • Location Disclosure: The salary will be adjusted at the time of the offer using market benchmarks for the location where the candidate lives, with the final offer falling within or near the posted range.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Health Insurance: Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Learning Budget: Training & Development
  • Other Benefit: Short Term & Long Term Disability
  • Paid Parental Leave: Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
  • Paid Time Off: Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
  • Remote-Friendly: Work From Home
  • Wellness Stipend: Wellness Resources

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