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Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Finance

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about 1 month ago
New York, NY, USASenior / Staff+
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Base Salary

$155k - $225k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Product Managers and Designers to define and prioritize the roadmap for advisor payments.
  • Design and maintain distributed systems that process booking, payment, and reconciliation data at scale.
  • Build and optimize backend services for payout logic, transaction timing, and ledger accuracy.
  • Focus on performance, architecture, data modeling, and transactional reliability in all systems.
  • Collaborate with engineers to define end-to-end engineering solutions connecting frontend and backend processes.
  • Own epics and be responsible for the full solution—design, implementation, and delivery.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years experience in backend web development.
  • 3+ years experience with Python, using Django/Flask or equivalent frameworks.
  • Strong experience designing APIs and distributed systems for financial data.
  • Experience with relational databases, ORMs, and accounting workflows.
  • Background in FinTech, Payments, or Infrastructure is highly preferred.
  • AWS and Kubernetes experience is a plus.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • An entrepreneurial mindset.

Benefits

  • Unlimited vacation.
  • Health Insurance options, including fully covered plans.
  • Dental and Vision Insurance.
  • Wellhub Memberships.
  • 401k plan with company match.
  • Commuter Benefits.
  • Supplemental Life Insurance.
  • Stock Options.

Tech Stack

AWSDjangoFlaskKubernetesPython

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