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ImprintImprintNew York, NY

Software Engineer, Backend

Backend engineer owning financial systems including transaction authorization, credit decisioning, and payment processing. Requires 5+ years building production backend systems, Go proficiency, distributed systems experience, and AI tool adoption.

140k – 200k
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own critical financial systems end-to-end: transaction authorization, ledger accounting, credit decisioning, rewards engines, and payment processing
  • Build net-new products and improve existing systems as the company expands into new financial products and rewards platform
  • Contribute to foundational platform work: shared services, API infrastructure, and developer tooling
  • Leverage AI tools across the stack for prototyping, testing, and production code
  • Work cross-functionally with product, design, infrastructure, compliance, solutions engineering, and brand partners
  • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response including root cause analysis

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building production backend systems (fintech experience a plus)
  • Experience building services that handle real money, real users, or real-time decisions
  • Proficiency in Go (primary backend language) or similar language with willingness to ramp quickly
  • Experience using AI tools (code assistants, MCP servers, agentic workflows) to accelerate development, or genuine enthusiasm to adopt them
  • Experience ensuring data consistency and transactional integrity across distributed systems
  • Strong with relational databases: schema design, migrations, and query performance tuning
  • Comfortable designing API contracts consumed by internal frontends and external partners
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling
  • Participation in on-call rotations and incident response
  • Clear communication and collaboration across product, design, and engineering teams
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments and make pragmatic tradeoffs

Nice-to-Haves

  • Fintech experience

Stack

Go, MySQL, DynamoDB, Temporal, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Statsig

Perks & Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Leading configured work computers of your choice
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Fully covered, high-quality healthcare including dependent coverage
  • Access to One Medical and FSA option
  • 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
  • Access to industry-leading technology across business units

Skills

GoMySQLDynamoDBTemporalKafkaKubernetesAWSGitHub ActionsDatadogStatsig

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