Staff Backend Engineer

Join our team as a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, where you'll architect and build complex financial systems that process millions of dollars daily. You'll design cross-domain solutions that coordinate payments, fraud detection, compliance, and user management across our distributed microservices architecture. This role requires deep systems thinking, technical leadership, and the ability to solve complex engineering challenges.

• Architect and build complex financial systems that process millions of dollars daily, focusing on payment processing, fraud detection, and compliance systems.
• Lead cross-domain solutions by coordinating complex interactions between payments, fraud detection, user management, and compliance systems.
• Drive technical decisions and lead architecture decisions that impact the entire platform, establishing best practices for a growing team.
• This role requires deep systems thinking, technical leadership, and the ability to solve complex engineering challenges that span multiple domains and external integrations
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices
• 3+ years of technical leadership experience (mentoring, architecture decisions, cross-team coordination)
• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and computer science fundamentals
• Demonstrated systems engineering experience solving complex, cross-domain challenges
• 8+ years of software engineering experience building complex, production systems
• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering from an accredited university highly preferred
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required
• System Design: Ability to design systems that balance performance, maintainability, and business requirements
• Cloud Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform, or similar cloud platforms
• Database Design: Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases
• Backend Development: Python (we use Python 3), strong understanding of web frameworks and APIs
• Architecture Patterns: Domain-driven design, clean architecture, CQRS
• Banking Integrations: Experience with financial APIs and money movement systems
• Financial Regulations: Understanding of AML, KYC, PCI DSS, or similar regulations
• Financial Systems: Payment processing, fraud detection, or compliance systems
• High-Scale Systems: Experience with systems processing high transaction volumes
• Third-Party Integrations: Experience coordinating multiple external service integrations
• We're looking for engineers who are excited by complex systems problems and have the educational background and experience to handle sophisticated challenges. If you're passionate about building mission-critical financial infrastructure and want to have a direct impact on our technical direction, we'd love to hear from you