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Staff Back End Engineer

Los Angeles, CAFull-time$200k2026-09-10 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid · United States

Core

Lead engineering best practices and solve systemic, cross-service problems for a scalable, secure AI wealth management platform.

Role type

Staff Back End Engineer (Infrastructure & Security focus)

Builds

Production-grade distributed systems, identity/access management, and hardened cloud infrastructure for financial advisors.

Domain

Fintech / Wealth Management / Cloud Infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed systems design, Identity & Access Management (IAM), AWS cloud infrastructure, Database optimization, API security, Incident remediation, Mentoring

Preferred skills

Full-stack development, Fintech domain experience, Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kubernetes

Technologies

Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes, OAuth/OIDC

Responsibilities

Design and build identity and access management capabilities (authentication, authorization, RBAC), strengthen AWS cloud infrastructure security posture, improve database performance in high-volume transactional systems, harden APIs and distributed systems against failure, lead incident remediation and build observability, mentor other engineers.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities