Senior Backend Engineer
Core
Design, build, and own critical backend services powering underwriting, credit scoring, and loan decisioning workflows for a fintech lending platform.
Role type
Senior Backend Engineer (Fintech/Lending)
Builds
High-performance Go services for score orchestration, policy evaluation, decision APIs, and lending platform capabilities.
Domain
Fintech / Digital Lending / Credit Risk
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Go (Golang), distributed systems design, SQL database management, event-driven architectures, microservices architecture, system design, code review, technical mentorship
Preferred skills
Experience with underwriting and credit scoring systems, ML-serving integration, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines
Technologies
Go, Kafka, Redis, gRPC, REST, SQL, Cloud platforms
Responsibilities
Design and build backend services for credit decisioning, integrate credit models and rule engines, ensure pipeline accuracy and resilience, define service contracts and data models, optimize platform performance, partner with ML and risk teams, lead technical design discussions, handle production incidents.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities