Hybrid Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Platform Risk

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About the role

  • Provide technical leadership for end-to-end projects while driving architectural decisions
  • Manage complex projects from inception to production
  • Mentor junior engineers and establish technical standards
  • Author, review, and approve technical design documents for complex features and systems
  • Transform high-level intent and ambiguous business requirements into working architectures
  • Proactively improve code quality and address technical debt across the team's code bases
  • Identify, propose, and implement scalable solutions that can be leveraged across the team
  • Ensure solutions are workable for teams inside and outside your function

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a track record of delivering complex systems
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects and mentor other engineers
  • Deep expertise in at least one backend language (Go, Java, Python, Ruby)
  • Experience building and scaling distributed systems in production
  • Strong understanding of system design, architecture patterns, and trade-offs
  • Proven ability to work with ambiguous requirements and drive technical clarity
  • Experience leading incident response and conducting post-mortems
  • Experience with risk, fraud detection, or financial systems at scale (preferred)
  • Knowledge of machine learning models in production environments (preferred)
  • Experience with real-time event processing and streaming architectures (Kafka, Flink) (preferred)
  • Understanding of payment systems (ACH, cards, crypto) and associated fraud patterns (preferred)
  • Experience with regulatory compliance and security requirements (preferred)
  • Track record of improving team productivity through tooling and process improvements (preferred)

Benefits

  • Bonus eligibility
  • Equity eligibility
  • Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))

Job title

Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Platform Risk

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$186,065 - $218,900 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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