Senior Backend Engineer

About Slope

Slope builds AI-native credit infrastructure for B2B commerce. We help growing businesses access capital and help credit teams make faster, better, more automated decisions.

We are looking for a senior backend engineer to own the backend systems that make that possible.

The role

You will work on the backend systems that power Slope’s embedded credit, payments and underwriting.

You should be excited by messy, important problems. Your job is to turn ambiguous problems and improvements into reliable production systems.

What you’ll do

• Build and own production systems for underwriting, bank-data review, credit review workflows, portfolio monitoring.

• Create reusable infrastructure for evidence gathering, decisioning, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop review.

• Build internal tools that help the credit risk team review data, understand decisions, handle exceptions, and move faster without sacrificing correctness.

• Clearly communicate technical assumptions, tradeoffs, failure modes, system boundaries, and migration plans.

• Own ambiguous projects end-to-end: define the pr