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Backend Engineer, Core APIs

Remote · EverywhereRemoteFull-time$130k–$180k2026-10-20 → 2026-11-08
RemoteNo visa sponsorship

Core

Building highly performant backend systems and infrastructure for end-to-end fraud detection solutions handling large-scale real-time data processing.

Role type

Senior IC backend engineer (APIs & distributed systems)

Builds

Scalable backend systems, APIs, and real-time data processing pipelines for fraud detection

Domain

Fintech / Fraud Detection / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Go (Golang), Node.js, API design, distributed systems scaling, SQL, NoSQL (DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch), Git, CI/CD, debugging, performance tuning

Preferred skills

TypeScript, Express, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, Datadog, Docker, Kubernetes, Internet security & privacy mechanisms

Technologies

Go, Node.js, TypeScript, Express, DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, Datadog, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and optimize backend systems for real-time data processing and web services; Integrate backend components with other services to ensure performance and scalability; Conduct deep dives into problematic features to identify root causes and implement engineering improvements; Perform performance tuning, debugging, and testing of backend systems; Mentor junior developers; Participate in shared on-call rotation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC