Backend Engineer

Join our Accounts Team as a Backend Engineer, where you will play a crucial role in managing and enhancing our Core Banking System. You will design, develop, and maintain backend services, optimize and scale our system, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. This is a remote position with excellent benefits, including unlimited time off and a learning & development stipend.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services for the Core Banking System, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Architect and implement robust asynchronous workflows to process banking transactions efficiently, optimizing and scaling the system as it grows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless experiences, continuously deploying and monitoring services in a cloud-based environment.

Requirements

Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS)

• A strong understanding of testing best practices, debugging, and profiling
• Data-driven decision maker, willing to take risks, fail fast, and iterate at the speed of AI generation
• Proficiency in working with relational and distributed databases, preferably CockroachDB, PostgreSQL, or similar
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a mindset for continuous improvement
• Strong proficiency in Go or Rails (or deep experience in another backend language with a willingness to learn Go)
• Hands-on experience building highly scalable, fault-tolerant backend services
• Experience working with event-driven, asynchronous architectures
• 3 - 5 years of professional experience in backend software development
• Understanding of banking or fintech-related systems
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, and Datadog
• Knowledge of multi-region architectures

Pay

USD 140,000 - 160,000