Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Patient Experience
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Senior Backend Engineer
Monstro
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $165,000 - $215,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesNoSQLSQLTerraform
About the role
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems, APIs, and integrations.
- Lead key architectural decisions on infrastructure, data flow, and cloud deployment strategy.
- Implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps best practices.
- Drive observability, monitoring, and uptime standards across backend services.
- Build secure, compliant systems optimized for a fintech-grade environment.
- Implement authentication, encryption, and access control across backend components.
- Manage multi-region or global cloud deployments on AWS (or equivalent).
- Design and implement robust multi-modal document processing systems that handle heterogeneous file formats with automatic schema inference, content extraction validation, and graceful degradation for malformed inputs.
- Own ingestion from APIs, file drops, partner feeds, and scheduled jobs with monitoring, retries, and alerting.
- Handle sensitive financial and personal data with access controls, auditing, and retention policies.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and Executive teams to deliver on Monstro's roadmap.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with deep backend expertise.
- Proven success designing and scaling distributed, cloud-native systems (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Experience with databases (SQL/NoSQL), caching, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on DevOps experience—CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform (or similar).
- Strong understanding of security, authentication, and data privacy standards.
- Experience collaborating with AI, product, and data teams on technical integration.
- Clear communication and documentation skills; thrives in fast-paced startup environments.
Benefits
- Ownership & Impact: As an early technical hire, you'll shape Monstro's architecture and future scale.
- Category-Defining Work: Build the systems that power next-generation financial intelligence.
- Mission-Driven: Help redefine how people and institutions understand and act on their finances.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
backend systemsAPIsinfrastructure-as-codeCI/CDDevOpsdocument processing systemsdatabasescachingperformance optimizationsecurity standards
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationdocumentationproblem-solvingadaptabilityteamworkstrategic thinkingattention to detailtime management
