Backend Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own features end to end: Design, build, test, and deploy backend features and services across payments, fraud, compliance, and user management, then run and monitor what you ship
• Integrate with financial partners and APIs: Build and maintain integrations with banks, card networks, and other third-party services, handling the edge cases that money movement demands
• Contribute to design: Write and review technical designs for your own work, participate in architecture discussions, and learn how our domain-driven, event-driven approach fits together
• Improve performance and reliability: Find and fix bottlenecks and failure modes across our microservices, and help raise the quality of our tests and observability
• Collaborate across teams: Work closely with product and compliance to turn business and regulatory requirements into working software

Job requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend systems
• Track record of delivering features independently, from ambiguous requirements to production, with sound judgment on when to ask for help
• Solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and computer science fundamentals
• Working experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or microservices
• Ability and willingness to travel up to ~15% annually
• Backend development: Python 3 and web frameworks and APIs (we use Flask)
• Databases: Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Cloud infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform, or similar cloud platforms