Jeeves

Senior Backend Engineer

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16 days ago
Remote, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, maintain, and operate scalable backend services for payments, cards, spend management, and compliance products.
  • Develop production-quality services and APIs using Go, Python, or Node.js/TypeScript, including REST, GraphQL, and gRPC integrations.
  • Design database schemas and optimize queries across relational and non-relational databases.
  • Own backend features from scoping and technical design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
  • Integrate OpenAI, Anthropic, and other LLM APIs into reliable backend product features and safely process their outputs.
  • Implement authentication, authorization, input validation, data protection, structured logging, tracing, and metrics.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, production incident response, post-incident reviews, testing infrastructure, and deployment improvements.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, compliance, data, and globally distributed teams across regions and time zones.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional backend engineering experience building and operating production systems.
  • Fluent English communication skills for daily written and spoken collaboration with global teams.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, or Node.js/TypeScript.
  • Experience designing RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven backend systems.
  • Strong relational database skills, including PostgreSQL schema design, query optimization, and data modeling.
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; Docker and Kubernetes; and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience reliably integrating third-party APIs with error handling, retry logic, and observability.
  • Experience working on globally distributed teams across time zones and regions.
  • Comfort using AI coding tools and integrating LLM API outputs into backend services.
  • Preferred qualifications include fintech, financial services, payments, regulated-industry, ledger, payment-rail, KYC/AML, PCI-DSS, multi-currency, cross-border payments, Kafka, RabbitMQ, startup, and global regulatory experience.
  • Spanish or Portuguese fluency is preferred.

Benefits

  • Full-time remote position.
  • Opportunity to work on a global stablecoin-native banking and payments platform.
Jeeves

About Jeeves

201-500 employees

Jeeves builds a finance platform for global businesses, combining multi-currency accounts, corporate cards, cross-border payments, and spend management in one system. The privately held company is headquartered in Miami and operates in 20+ countries across the Americas, the United Kingdom, and Europe, serving over 5,000 clients ranging from venture-backed startups to SMBs.

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