Senior Backend Engineer (Payroll)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Backend Engineer (Payroll)

• Focus: Back-end development for a Payroll product

• Work style: Continuous delivery with automated QA in a microservices environment

• Location requirement: Must be physically located in the Eastern Time Zone (EDT)

Description

Build and maintain highly scalable back-end systems for the Payroll product using a modern microservices architecture. Own the end-to-end development cycle from technical design and coding through testing, deployment, and monitoring, delivering updates in a continuous delivery environment with automated QA. Collaborate with product managers and front-end engineers to implement features and support platform integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable back-end systems for Payroll

• Collaborate with product managers and front-end engineers to deliver features aligned to the product roadmap

• Write clean, maintainable, efficient code in Kotlin, Scala, or Java (or be eager to learn Kotlin)

• Build and optimize APIs for seamless platform integrations

• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback

• Own technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring

• Release reliably using automated QA processes

Requirements

• Physically located in the Eastern Time Zone (EDT) with sufficient overlap with the team

• 6+ years of professional backend-focused software engineering experience

• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools; ability to validate generated code for quality, security, and maintainability

• Experience building customer-facing SaaS products from inception to launch with thousands of users

• Experience working with product managers and confidently navigating trade-offs and negotiations

• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL

• Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable architecture

• Experience with testing methodologies (unit testing, TDD, mocking, etc.)

• Experience with AWS or an equivalent cloud platform

• Independent, fast learner; proactive team player

Benefits

• Base salary: $170,000–$220,000 per year plus benefits and stock options (ISOs)

• Pre-IPO equity and 401(k) with 3% company match

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage from day one

• Annual wellness stipend; Headspace membership

• Hybrid work (NY metro) and temporary remote work option (up to 2 months per year after 6 months)

• Generous paid time off and company holidays; Bob Balance Days; birthday off

• Home office allowance

• Two paid Social Impact days each year and frequent team social events