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Senior Back End Engineer

Los Angeles, CAFull-time$185k2026-09-10 → 2026-11-11
Hybrid · United States

Core

Building and scaling secure, high-performance distributed systems and user-facing web applications for a wealth management AI platform.

Role type

Senior Back End Engineer (Infrastructure & Security focus)

Builds

Identity and access management capabilities, AWS cloud infrastructure, and hardened distributed services

Domain

Fintech / Wealth Management

Required skills

Distributed systems design, Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS cloud infrastructure, Database optimization, API security, Incident response, Observability

Preferred skills

Full-stack development, Fintech domain experience, Security-sensitive environment experience

Technologies

Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes, React.js, Typescript, GraphQL

Responsibilities

Mentor engineers and develop impactful solutions, Implement IAM capabilities (auth, authz, RBAC, OAuth/OIDC), Improve AWS infrastructure security and operational guardrails, Optimize high-volume transactional databases, Harden APIs and distributed systems against failure and abuse, Participate in incident response and remediation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC