Jeeves

Senior Backend Engineer

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16 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, maintain, and operate scalable backend services for financial transactions, payments, cards, spend management, and compliance.
  • Develop production-quality services and APIs using Go, Python, or Node.js/TypeScript, including RESTful, GraphQL, and gRPC-based integrations.
  • Design and optimize PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis data models and schemas.
  • Own backend features end-to-end from scoping and technical design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
  • Integrate OpenAI and Anthropic LLM APIs into product features and build reliable pipelines for validating and safely consuming AI-generated outputs.
  • Use AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Cursor in daily development.
  • Implement authentication, authorization, input validation, and data protection across distributed services.
  • Improve observability through structured logging, distributed tracing, and metrics; participate in on-call and incident reviews.
  • Contribute to CI/CD, testing infrastructure, deployment practices, documentation, design reviews, and cross-regional collaboration.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience building and operating production systems.
  • Fluent English and strong proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, or Node.js/TypeScript.
  • Experience designing RESTful APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and inter-service communication.
  • Strong relational database knowledge, with PostgreSQL preferred, including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling.
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; Docker; 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 tools, integrating LLM API outputs into backend services, and using AI coding assistants.
  • Preferred: fintech, financial services, payments, regulated-industry, ledger, payment-rail, KYC/AML, or PCI-DSS experience.
  • Preferred: Spanish or Portuguese fluency, startup or high-growth company experience, multi-currency or cross-border payments experience, Kafka or RabbitMQ familiarity, and global regulatory experience.

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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