Senior Staff Backend Engineer
You design, build, and maintain core backend APIs for payments and loyalty platforms. You collaborate with product, design, and engineering stakeholders, contribute to scalable architecture, promote backend best practices, mentor engineers, and help shape implementation decisions.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain core backend APIs
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering peers to deliver features
- Contribute to system architecture and implement scalable solutions
- Promote backend best practices focused on code quality, testing, and performance
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers
- Participate in product and design discussions
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and deploying backend APIs
- Kotlin or another statically typed JVM language
- RESTful API design and maintenance
- Domain-driven design
- SQL databases
- Schema design
- Database performance tuning
- Attention to detail
- Autonomous decision-making
- Engineer mentoring
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Spring framework
- Hibernate
- U.S. payments ecosystem
- AWS
- Terraform
- Blockchain
- Cryptography
- Generative AI
Benefits
- Stock options
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible time off
- 401(k)