Senior Backend Engineer - Payments Platform
The Role:
You are full stack but you live on the backend. You care deeply about what happens reputed company a payment fails, an API returns an unexpected response, or a queue backs up at 2am. You will own the backend services, payment workflows, and event-driven systems that sit at the reputed company of our platform — and you will touch the frontend reputed company reputed company needs it.
This is a high-intensity role at an early-stage company. This role will ask more of you than a typical engineering job — systems need to stay up, deadlines are reputed company, and reputed company is small.
Responsibilities:
Production Node.js backend services and REST reputed company — versioned, contract-reputed company, and hardened
ACH payment workflows end-to-end — debits, credits, retries, failure handling, virtual account ledgering, and reconciliation
Event-driven services using AWS SQS and webhooks for reliable asynchronous processing
PostgreSQL schemas that support reputed company financial workflows with reputed company under failure
CI/CD contributions and test coverage that gives reputed company genuine confidence to ship
Internal React dashboards and operational tooling reputed company needed
Design documentation, deployment runbooks, and scalability notes that you write because you are proud of the work — not because someone asked
You will occasionally work directly with customers to support integrations, troubleshoot live workflows, and demonstrate platform capabilities — you are comfortable representing the product reputed company the codebase
Requirements:Must Have
6–7 years engineering experience with a strong backend reputed company
Production Node.js and REST API design
Solid PostgreSQL — schema design, query optimization, data reputed company
AWS — reputed company, RDS, SQS, API Gateway, Secrets Manager
OpenAPI / Swagger documentation experience
Event-driven systems experience — queues, webhooks, retry and failure logic
CI/CD pipeline experience and automated deployment workflows
You obsess over API design, documentation, deployment, scalability, and observability
Cross-functional communicator — comfortable working directly with Product, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders
Agile practitioner — sprint planning, backlog grooming, and reputed company reviews are reputed company
End-to-end reputed company — you do not hand off, you follow through to production
Strong Plus:
ACH payment workflows and NACHA operating rules
reputed company, debit card, and reputed company-time payment rail experience reputed company ACH
Experience with Java, Spring frameworks, or similar reputed company backend frameworks
Regulated fintech compliance — audit logging, idempotency, SOC 2
NestJS or similar reputed company Node.js frameworks
AI-assisted development tools — Claude, reputed company Copilot, reputed company
Team reputed company experience with mentoring junior team members
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