Senior Backend Engineer (Go oriented)

Why join Tipalti

Tipalti is the AI-powered platform for finance automation elevating how finance teams operate in the global economy. We empower our customers to scale faster and smarter by removing the complexities of doing global business and accelerating their finance operations efficiency. Our platform provides a comprehensive suite of finance automation solutions designed for mid-market businesses across accounts payable global payouts procurement employee expenses corporate cards supplier management tax compliance and treasury. Tipalti partners with leading financial institutions such as Citi Wells Fargo J.P. Morgan and Visa enabling over 5000 global companies to efficiently and securely pay millions of suppliers and payees across 200 countries and territories in 120 currencies.

At Tipalti we pride ourselves on our collaborative culture the quality of our product and the capabilities of our people. Tipaltians are passionate about the work they do and keen to get the job done. Tipalti offers competitive benefits a flexible workplace career coaching and an environment where diverse individuals can thrive and make an impact. Our culture ensures everyone checks their egos at the door and stands ready to reach for success together.

Founded in Israel in 2010 Tipalti is a global business headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area (Foster City) with offices in Tel Aviv Plano Toronto Vancouver London Amsterdam Tbilisi and Medellin.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Design build and optimize scalable reliable and secure backend services in Go (Golang).
  
  
• Develop and maintain microservices that handle connectivity and data synchronization between systems.
  
  
• Build resilient and observable systems using AWS Docker and Kubernetes.
  
  
• Design and manage PostgreSQL databases with a focus on performance reliability and data integrity.
  
  
• Work with queues and messaging systems (AWS SQS/SNS Kafka RabbitMQ) to ensure reliable communication between services.
  
  
• Debug troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across multiple services and environments.
  
  
• Investigate and fix production incidents and performance bottlenecks ensuring system stability uptime and data freshness.
  
  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product DevOps Data) to design deliver and maintain high-quality solutions.
  
  
• Participate in architecture discussions code reviews and continuous improvement initiatives

About you

• 5 years of backend engineering experience in production environments.
  
  
• 2 years of hands-on experience with Go (Golang).
  
  
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture and scalable system design.
  
  
• Proven experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
  
  
• Solid knowledge of Docker AWS and cloud-native development.
  
  
• Familiarity with message queues event-driven architecture and asynchronous workflows.
  
  
• Deep understanding of debugging troubleshooting and root cause analysis in distributed systems.
  
  
• Experience maintaining and improving system observability (logs metrics tracing).
  
  
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to take full ownership of issues through resolution.
  
  

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes Helm or Terraform/CDK.
  
  
• Background in fintech data aggregation or connectivity platforms.
  
  
• Experience integrating with banking APIs or third-party financial systems.
• Familiarity with TypeScript.

Our tech teams are the engine behind our business. Tipaltis tech ecosystem is extremely rich and we continually add new features to our products ensuring that we respond to our clients needs at scale. Our tech teams retain a fast-paced start-up vibe that encourages innovation and critical thinking. At Tipalti youll have the opportunity to work with a diverse global team of engineers developers and product leaders who are collectively building the future of our best-in-class product suite as we transform financial operations for the future.

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