Software Engineer - Backend
Builds and operates scalable backend systems for AI-powered mortgage origination platform, partnering with product and full-stack teams. Requires strong expertise in typed languages like Go/Java, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kafka/Redis, and distributed systems at production scale.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Work alongside full-stack engineers, bringing deep backend and systems expertise to ensure scalable and reliable product functionality.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to design, build, and operate backend systems supporting customer-facing features.
- Take ownership of backend and systems aspects of product features from design through production and scale.
Requirements
- Comfortable in early-stage startup environment with occasional extra effort for mission-critical work.
- Experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems at scale.
- Strong backend engineering focus; deep systems and backend expertise essential.
- Hands-on with multi-service architectures in production.
- Ownership of performance, reliability, and scalability (e.g., query optimization, indexing, bottlenecks).
- Fluency in modern AI tooling for development workflow.
- Proficiency in strongly typed backend language (C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, or similar).
- Hands-on with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL (schema design, performance tuning).
- Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred), Kafka, Redis, or similar.
- Strong systems design instincts for scalability, performance, reliability tradeoffs.
- High autonomy, end-to-end ownership, close collaboration.
- Bias toward practical, iterative solutions with minimal overhead.
Compensation
Targeted at $180,000 - $225,000/yr (final offer based on experience and expertise).
Skills
Go, Java, C#, Kotlin, Postgres, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Distributed Systems, AI Tools
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