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Staff Back End Engineer

Los Angeles, CA💼 Full-time💰 $220,000–$220,000🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, build, and harden identity and access management capabilities, strengthen AWS cloud infrastructure, and improve database performance for high-volume transactional systems in a wealth management AI platform.

Role type

Staff Back End Engineer (Security & Infrastructure focus)

Builds

Production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Domain

Fintech / Wealth Management / Cloud Security

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed systems design, Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS infrastructure, Database optimization, API hardening, Incident remediation, Observability, Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kubernetes, Postgres

Preferred skills

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

Technologies

Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Act as a leader and steward of engineering best practices, Own systemic, cross-service problems end to end, Design and build identity and access management capabilities, Strengthen AWS and cloud infrastructure security posture, Improve database performance and security, Harden APIs and distributed systems against failure, Drive production reliability and incident remediation

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship

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