Senior Backend Engineer (Fintech Platform)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Backend Engineer (Fintech Platform)

• Focus: Global payroll and money movement infrastructure

Description

Build and scale backend systems that power global payroll and payments infrastructure. Develop high-integrity capabilities for payroll calculations, filings, ledgers, payment orders, reconciliation, treasury, and risk controls, with strong correctness guarantees across distributed financial workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale backend systems for global payroll and payments infrastructure

• Create country-agnostic platform primitives for tax, compliance, banking, and payroll requirements across regions

• Build APIs and integration layers to ingest complex customer, partner, payroll-provider, banking, and compliance data with correctness guarantees

• Solve distributed-systems problems involving high-volume financial data, state transitions, retries, and integrations

• Partner with product, design, operations, compliance, payroll experts, and payments teams to turn ambiguous needs into robust systems

• Mentor other engineers and raise the engineering bar through technical design, code quality, operational rigor, and clear ownership

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems

• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, data models, event-driven workflows, or financial infrastructure

• Strong engineering judgment around failure modes, data integrity, observability, and operational response

• Experience leading complex technical projects and mentoring engineers

• Interest in fintech/financial infrastructure (payments, payroll, banking, tax, treasury, ledgers, reconciliation, or regulated systems) is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive salary + benefits + equity