Staff Backend Engineer - Shared Services
Core
Establish technical standards and raise the excellence bar for the engineering team by defining architecture for backend systems across Growth, Onboarding, and Shared Experience.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Shared Services)
Builds
Scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure backend services for the investor journey
Domain
Fintech, high-scale distributed systems
Required skills
Java, Go, microservices, event-driven architectures, reliability engineering, observability, performance optimization, Kafka, Redis, relational and NoSQL databases, cloud platforms (GCP, AWS)
Preferred skills
Fintech or regulated environment background, influence without direct authority
Responsibilities
Define technical direction and architecture for backend systems spanning multiple teams, lead design of scalable services, identify technical risks and drive decisions, lead root cause analysis for production incidents, set engineering standards, partner with cross-functional teams, mentor Senior Engineers, stay hands-on with critical components
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope