Software Engineer, Backend; PMI Core

Overview

Employer Industry: Fintech

Why consider this job opportunity:

• Salary up to $228,000
• Competitive benefits package, including 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses
• Generous vacation and holiday schedules to promote work-life balance
• Opportunity to participate in an employee stock purchase plan at a discount
• Remote-first work culture with the flexibility to work from anywhere within the country of employment

• Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long scale and align it with critical business-impacting projects
• Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics throughout the product development lifecycle
• Advocate for technical solutions and operational processes to enhance team effectiveness
• Ensure team operations and availability with proper monitoring, triage rotations, and testing protocols
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
• Proven track record in developing highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes
• Experience in delivering major features and system components with a well-defined technical execution plan
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with global engineering teams
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience

• Experience with gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers
• Comfort in navigating from low-level language idioms to the architecture of large systems