Staff Backend Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Architect Critical Financial Systems: Design and implement payment processing, fraud detection, and compliance systems that handle millions of dollars daily with strict regulatory requirements
• Lead Cross-Domain Solutions: Coordinate complex interactions between payments, fraud detection, user management, and compliance systems
• Drive Technical Decisions: Lead architecture decisions that impact our entire platform and establish best practices for a growing team
• Mentor Engineers: Guide junior engineers and establish coding standards, design patterns, and engineering practices
• Optimize System Performance: Improve reliability and performance across our distributed microservices architecture
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with product and compliance teams to design systems that meet business and regulatory requirements

Job requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building complex, production systems
• 3+ years of technical leadership experience (mentoring, architecture decisions, cross-team coordination)
• Demonstrated systems engineering experience solving complex, cross-domain challenges
• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and computer science fundamentals
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices
• Backend Development: Python (we use Python 3), strong understanding of web frameworks and APIs
• Database Design: Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases
• Cloud Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform, or similar cloud platforms