Backend Engineer

About the Role

This is a backend engineering role at the heart of a fintech team building compliance and identity infrastructure for businesses. You will design scalable, high-trust systems and help shape the engineering culture of a senior, distributed team solving a genuinely hard technical problem.

What You'll Do

• Design and build backend systems that are clean, testable, and efficient.

• Architect scalable APIs and infrastructure suited to high-trust, regulated environments.

• Bring strong opinions on testing, quality, and long-term maintainability to every project.

• Tackle complex product challenges by thinking deeply about user needs and system behavior.

• Shape engineering practices and technical culture through collaboration and hands-on leadership.

What We're Looking For

• 5 or more years of backend engineering experience building production APIs, distributed services, or backend systems; the team skews toward 7+ years.

• Strong systems thinking: ability to see beyond individual features and reason about large-scale architectural problems.

• Experience buildi