Senior Backend Engineer

Job Summary

Owning the transaction processing platform infrastructure, the full-time Senior Backend Engineer will design and maintain services for signing and settlement flows, ensuring operational health and correctness in a remote environment.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the transaction processing platform, focusing on service design, correctness guarantees, and operational health
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis, driving postmortems to prevent future issues
• Design data models, API contracts, and define production readiness standards for platform services

Required qualifications

• 5-7 years of backend software engineering experience, preferably in systems with strict correctness or ordering guarantees
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, with experience in functional effect systems preferred
• Experience with durable workflow or orchestration systems in production
• Solid understanding of concurrency control patterns and production experience with PostgreSQL and Kafka
• Ability to independently own a service and make reliability and design decisions