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Comun has raised +$50M from top investors including Redpoint, Costanoa Ventures, and South Park Commons. Our team brings experience from leading fintech companies like Brex, Nubank, and Mercury.\nWe believe immigrants are the ultimate entrepreneurs - driven by relentless ambition and a vision for a better future for their families. Comun exists to serve them throughout their journey.\nLearn more at comun.app/nosotros\nArticle here\nAbout the Role\nAs a backend engineer, you’ll be responsible for extending our systems to support additional banking features, increases in usage volume, and the needs of our non-technical company functions.\nYou’ll maintain our core offering - a deposit account and debit card powered through our Banking as a Service partner, while designing our architecture to bundle additional financial services into a personalized product experience. 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