Sr Staff Engineer Backend

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A Day in the Life The Sr Staff Engineer, Backend will architect and lead the distributed systems that power our lending operating system. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer who thrives at the intersection of deep systems design, complex business logic, and the realities of operating mission-critical services in a regulated industry.

You will drive architectural decisions across our multi-tenant, microservices-based platform — the systems that run the full loan lifecycle from origination and credit decisioning through contract execution, boarding, and servicing. You will set the technical direction for backend engineering, mentor and grow a team of engineers, and partner closely with frontend, product, QA, credit, and data teams to ship integrated, production-grade solutions that make capital move for small businesses.

Lendistry:
Who We Are We’re proud to be the nation’s largest minority-led, tech-savvy lender for small businesses and commercial real estate. As a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and Community Development Entity (CDE), our mission is all about creating economic opportunities and fueling growth for small business owners and their communities. Join us as we pave the way with innovative financing and financial education!

What You’ll Be Doing You will be the principal architect of the backend systems that power Lendistry's lending platform, including:

Core lending services — origination, application intake, decisioning orchestration, contract execution, boarding, and servicing handoff.

Credit and risk infrastructure — the services that orchestrate underwriting workflows, external data providers, and internal scoring models.

Platform primitives — multi-tenant identity, authorization, audit logging, workflow orchestration, and the shared APIs every product team consumes.

Integration fabric — credit bureaus, KYC/KYB providers, bank cores, servicers, payment rails, and government program systems.

Operational backbone — observability, resilience patterns, and the on-call and release discipline that let a small team safely run big systems.

Technical Leadership & Architecture Own the backend architecture of Lendistry's lending platform — service decomposition, domain boundaries, data ownership, inter-service communication, and the long-term evolution of the system.

Set the technical direction and best practices for backend engineering — API design, language and framework choices, testing strategy, observability, and operational standards.

Influence the product and platform roadmap across multiple services and integrations, representing backend engineering strategy at the organizational level.

Drive cross-functional initiatives that span backend, frontend, data, credit, and compliance — the work that does not fit neatly inside one team.

Distributed Systems & Platform Development Design and build complex, scalable backend services in a microservices environment — production code…