# Senior Software Engineer - Backend

**Company:** [Parker](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/parker)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, TypeScript, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GraphQL, REST APIs, SQL, Go
**Posted:** 2025-10-30

> Designs, builds, and scales backend services and APIs for fintech platform handling billions in transactions. Leads architecture, mentors engineers, and ensures reliability using Node.js, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and AWS. Requires 7+ years backend experience.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Design and scale backend services that power Parker’s financial products and APIs.
- Lead architectural decisions to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability across our systems.
- Build and maintain services in a modern cloud-native environment (Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS).
- Partner with product and infrastructure teams to design secure, intuitive APIs and data models.
- Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, technical mentorship, and architectural guidance.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and lead initiatives to improve reliability, observability, and system design.
- Contribute to the evolution of Parker’s technical roadmap and long-term engineering vision.

## Basic Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
- Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems in production.
- Strong proficiency with **Node.js** and **Typescript** (or comparable backend languages such as **Go**, **Java**, or **Python**).
- Experience with databases (**SQL** and/or **NoSQL**), **Docker**, and **Kubernetes**.
- Familiarity with **GraphQL**, **RESTful APIs**, and event-driven architectures.
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure (**AWS** or **GCP**) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally.

## Nice to Haves
- Experience working in fintech, payments, or e-commerce infrastructure.
- Background in credit systems, ledgering, or transactional data modeling.
- Contributions to or interest in open source software.
- Experience in high-growth startup environments.

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