Backend Engineer, Payments and Risk

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In the posting’s own words

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What it asks for · 5

• 2+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
• Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job, so our interview process is language agnostic)
• Strong collaboration skills; can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
• Ability to thrive with a high degree of autonomy and ownership, with an entrepreneurial mindset
• Interested in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Also a plus

• Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
• Good understanding and practical knowledge of cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, etc.)

What the job covers

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Mentor engineers to help them grow
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues

Degree language

• Ability to thrive with a high degree of autonomy and ownership, with an entrepreneurial mindset

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Words the posting leans on

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