
Senior Backend Software Engineer, Fintech
ProducePay
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Drive the technical direction and architecture for new features and core services within our financial platform, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Take full ownership of high-impact features, writing clean, well-tested code in production environments.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response to maintain the stability and performance of our critical financial systems.
- Foster a culture of constant learning by mentoring engineers through rigorous code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
- Work closely with product, design, sales, and marketing teams to translate customer needs into impactful, production-ready software.
- Enhance team knowledge and system maintainability by writing and improving runbooks and technical documentation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience shipping production-quality backend software and building robust web applications.
- Extensive experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
- Direct experience with GraphQL, Postgres, and Serverless technologies on AWS.
- Strong SQL debugging skills required to troubleshoot complex data and transaction issues.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Proven experience designing and supporting complex financial transaction systems within FinTech, banking, or payments environments.
- Deep understanding of event-driven and/or workflow-based architecture.
- Prior experience integrating with critical third-party systems (e.g., NetSuite, Salesforce, Modern Treasury, banking APIs).
- Practical understanding of key reliability concepts, including idempotency, retries, and comprehensive error handling.
- Familiarity with core accounting concepts (e.g., double-entry bookkeeping, ledgers, reconciliation).
- Experience developing reconciliation workflows and identifying data mismatches.
- Experience with applying AI/ML techniques to improve workflows or leverage financial data.
Benefits
- - Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- - Retirement Plan (401k)
- - Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- - Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- - Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- - Short Term & Long Term Disability
- - Training & Development
- - Work From Home
- - Wellness Resources
- - **Location Disclosure: ***The salary will be adjusted at the time of the offer using market benchmarks for the location where the candidate lives, with the final offer falling within or near the posted range.*
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Hard skills
Node.jsTypeScriptGraphQLPostgresServerlessSQL debuggingevent-driven architectureworkflow-based architectureAI/ML techniquesreconciliation workflows
Soft skills
mentoringcode reviewspair programmingknowledge sharingcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationownershipadaptabilitylearning
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science