Staff Backend Engineer, Payments, Consumer Apps

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve microservices that handle high-volume financial and transactional data
• Design and implement APIs that securely connect to third-party payment processors, banks, and fintech partners
• Write thoughtful & quality code that is readable, testable, and easily maintainable
• Develop data-driven services that power account management, transaction history, and financial insights
• Strive for excellent development practices and careful code architecture that is built around rapid releases
• Work cross-functionally with backend, mobile, and product teams to consistently release high-quality, customer-focused financial features
• Adhere to, and improve upon, our agile process through requirement documents, sprint retrospectives, and other regular cadence meetings

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building backend services in production environments
• Experience building microservices using Rust and Go
• Expert knowledge of SQL and experience designing data models for financial data integrity
• Experience designing transactional and event-driven systems for payments, reconciliation systems, or ledger-like applications
• Experience with message queues or event streams (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Familiarity with microservice or Service-oriented Architecture
• Experience using gRPC, protobuf, or GraphQL

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in the financial technology, payments, or banking systems industry
• Familiarity with compliance, security, and data privacy standards (e.g., SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR)