Senior Backend Software Engineer, Earner Payments

Requirements

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience with Strong CS fundamentals
• Extensive software design and development skills
• Expertise in one or more object-oriented programming languages (e.g. Java, Golang, Python)
• Experience with production-quality services, deployment, monitoring, and reliability
• Background in distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra)
• Ability to decompose complex problems into clean, extensible, performant services and systems
• Self-driven to identify opportunities to make things better and efficient
• Thoughtfulness, high adaptability, and a willingness to learn
• Experience mentoring team members & being a trusted advisor
• A team player attitude

Nice to Haves

• Prior experience working on features end-to-end, including frontend, backend, and database
• Background in building high-performance, scalable distributed systems

What You'll Be Doing

• Build elegant backend platform components for high-throughput and low-latency distributed systems
• Solve challenging problems with cutting-edge design and algorithms
• Maintain the health of systems and code base, keep development hygiene, refactor and make improvements
• Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability
• Analyze and decompose complex software systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Work with a smart and motivated team in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

Perks and Benefits

• Opportunity to work with a team impacting the financial well-being of millions
• Collaborative and fast-paced work environment