Engineering
Staff Backend Engineer
Remote (U.S. Based)
Full-Time · $185,000 - $230,000 USD Annually
About the role
Join a Series C fintech client rebuilding its payments ledger for multi-region scale. You will own core services end to end, set the technical bar for a growing platform team, and mentor senior engineers through a period of rapid growth.
Responsibilities
- Design and own high-throughput backend services powering a regulated payments platform
- Lead the migration from single-region infrastructure to a resilient multi-region architecture
- Set standards for observability, testing, and incident response across the platform team
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews and pairing
- Partner with product and security to ship a roadmap already committed to customers
Qualifications
- 8+ years building production backend systems in Go, Rust, or Java
- Direct experience with distributed systems and multi-region data consistency
- Background in payments, fintech, or another regulated, high-reliability domain
- Track record of taking services from design through on-call ownership
- Strong written communication for a remote-first engineering culture