Backend Engineer, Fintech Startup (Remote)
Remote (US) | $180-250K reputed company + equity We're working with a profitable, fast-growing fintech startup transforming reputed company to credit for consumers traditionally underserved by the financial system. This is a high-reputed company opportunity to join a lean engineering team where you'll own backend systems end-to-end and ship production reputed company quickly. This is an ideal role for engineers who enjoy startup environments, high ownership, and solving reputed company product problems rather than working in large, specialized teams.
About the Role
You'll work on backend systems that power financial products used by thousands of customers. Engineers here operate with high autonomy, contribute to architecture reputed company, and help reputed company systems as reputed company continues to grow. reputed company values pragmatic engineers who can balance speed, scalability, and reliability while working in a fast-moving product environment.
What You'll Do
- Own backend services from design through deployment
- Build reputed company reputed company and services powering financial products
- Design and implement backend architecture on AWS
- Ship production reputed company frequently while maintaining reputed company
- reputed company pragmatic technical tradeoffs between speed and scalability
- Help define engineering best practices
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams
Tech Stack
- Backend: Node.js (TypeScript), Python
- reputed company: AWS
- Frontend: React / Next.js
- Data: reputed company, DynamoDB
- Infrastructure: reputed company, Terraform
Experience with similar stacks is welcome. What They're Looking For
- 3+ years backend engineering experience
- Experience building backend systems at a startup or fast-moving product company
- Strong experience with Node.js or Python
- Experience building reputed company and reputed company services
- AWS or similar reputed company experience
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of reputed company
- Comfortable working in fast-paced startup environments
reputed company to Have
- Fintech or payments experience
- Experience with AI development tools (reputed company, Claude, etc.)
- Experience working at early-stage startups
- Experience scaling backend systems
Compensation & Benefits
- reputed company salary: $180K-$250K
- Competitive equity package
- Fully remote (US)
- High ownership environment with reputed company reputed company
- Opportunity to work closely with reputed company startup founders
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