Software Engineer (Backend)

About us:

Modak is a US-based fintech platform leveraging the power of finance and technology to empower kids and teens to reach their full potential. We pursue this mission by offering a gamified fintech and learning ecosystem - with Visa debit cards family checking accounts payment applications enabled by AI-powered infrastructure and embedded with financial literacy. We are built for scale and security using leading technologies and best practices that power tens of thousands of API calls per day (and scaling rapidly!).

We are a global company with teams across the US Latam and India. We do in person retreats every 3-4 months. If you are hungry to learn humble to work with and hustle to find creative ways to solve problems we would love to hear from you - especially if you are living in the US Colombia Argentina Brazil or India.

Modak is currently at the Series A stage having raised $19M from leading investors including Notable Capital (Airbnb Anthropic Square TikTok Coinbase) Nazca (Kavak Justo) Monashees (Rappi Loft) ONE VC Maya Capital and more than 40 other top angel investors founders and operators across the US India and Latin America.

What you will do

Youll help design build and scale Modaks backend systems that power our financial ecosystem. Youll work closely with product and engineering teams to deliver secure reliable and performant APIs. Your work will include integrating external partners improving internal systems and mentoring peers always with a focus on quality scalability and customer impact.

Key responsibilities include:

• Building and maintaining scalable API services and integrations.
• Ensuring data integrity security and PCI DSS compliance.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features.
• Promoting engineering excellence through testing documentation and mentorship.

What Were Looking For

We want to highlight that not everybody has all the skills that match a job description. None of us did! We value diverse experiences and while having the desired qualifications make for a strong candidate we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. Every qualified applicant will be considered within the employment process. We strive for a diverse inclusive workplace environment. Heres more about our teams thinking on this topic.

• Experience designing and running large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of at least one backend language (Go Java Python )
• Basic understanding of REST APIs and eagerness to learn how to design and build good ones.
• Familiarity with relational or document databases and interest in learning more about building scalable systems.
• Curiosity about secure systems development (e.g. encryption authentication compliance).
• Interest in learning about financial systems payments or related domains (banking concepts like reconciliation transactions accounting are a plus not a requirement).
• Enthusiasm for problem-solving and advocating for customer needs.