Senior Backend Engineer

Who You Are

You are a Senior Back-End Engineer joining a new product initiative. You will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable reliable back-end systems that power web and mobile applications.

Youll work closely with engineers product managers and infrastructure teams to design systems that are secure high-performing and built to scale. Your work will directly influence the architecture and evolution of new product offerings.

What Youll Do

• Design build and maintain scalable back-end services APIs and data systems that support web and mobile applications
• Architect reliable secure and high-performance server-side solutions
• Collaborate with front-end engineers product managers and infrastructure/DevOps teams to deliver end-to-end features
• Ensure systems are built with best practices around code quality testing observability and deployment
• Contribute to architectural decisions across microservices and event-driven systems
• Work with modern cloud and containerized environments to support scalable deployments
• Leverage caching messaging and data pipelines where appropriate to improve system performance
• Stay current with modern back-end engineering practices distributed systems and emerging technologies
• Use AI tools and automation thoughtfully to improve engineering productivity and decision-making

What Were Looking For

• 7 years of back-end engineering experience including time in senior or lead roles
• Strong experience building APIs and services using TypeScript and frameworks such as NestJS or Express
• Solid understanding of SQL databases; exposure to NoSQL is a plus
• Experience working with microservices and event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or similar containerization/orchestration tools
• Working knowledge of caching strategies and messaging systems (e.g. Kafka or similar)
• Experience using API tools such as Postman and version control systems like Git (or Bitbucket)
• Strong engineering fundamentals around scalability reliability and system design

Bonus Points

• Experience working in early-stage or fast-moving product environments (zero-to-one builds)
• Exposure to fintech trading brokerage lending or financial systems