- Location
- Palo Alto
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- CareersPage
Description
We're hiring multiple Software Engineers to join a fast-growing engineering team building the infrastructure behind a mission-critical fintech platform. If you enjoy solving large-scale backend and infrastructure challenges while enabling other engineers to ship faster, we'd love to talk.
What You'll Do
- Build and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure that powers a production platform processing critical financial transactions.
- Improve developer experience through better CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, monitoring, and automation.
- Design scalable backend systems and platform services with reliability and performance in mind.
- Troubleshoot production issues, improve system resiliency, and help prevent future incidents.
- Collaborate closely with engineers across the company to establish infrastructure best practices and maintain high engineering standards.
What We're Looking For
Must Have
- 1–4 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and at least one additional backend programming language.
- Experience building or supporting backend infrastructure or core platform services.
- Experience with one or more of the following:
- Cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Distributed or event-driven systems
- System scaling and performance optimization
- Caching technologies
- Backend integrations
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals and system design.
Nice to Have
- AWS infrastructure experience.
- PostgreSQL or database infrastructure experience.
- Experience with microservices or GraphQL APIs.
- Cross-team platform or developer tooling experience.
- Personal projects, open-source contributions, or strong passion for engineering.
Tech Stack
- AWS
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- GraphQL
- Temporal.io
- Honeycomb
- GitHub Codespaces
- Modern AI-assisted development tools
Ideal Candidate
- Enjoys working on infrastructure, scalability, and reliability.
- Comfortable owning production systems and solving challenging technical problems.
- Curious, collaborative, and eager to learn new technologies.
- Has experience beyond a single tech stack and enjoys building developer tools and platform capabilities.