Backend Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work on a disruptive product that's still in its early stages.
• Be responsible for driving innovation in software development while relentlessly improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Own the design process, implementation, and verification of backend and platform components leveraging standard software engineering methodologies.
• Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.
• Build distributed systems, microservices, caching layers, and workflow components across our lending stack.
• Work hands-on with AWS services like S3, SQS, Step Functions, Lambda, EMR and design event-driven pipelines.
• Implement robust data models on MySQL and build high-performing APIs and services.
• Work with the observability stack using Loki, Prometheus, and Datadog to ensure high reliability and uptime.
• Responsible for mentoring other engineers, defining our technical culture, and helping to build a fast-growing team.

Requirements:

• Having 3-5 years of experience defining, designing, and delivering backend or distributed systems.
• Mentoring and supporting other team members by doing code reviews and applying your experience in setting up technical processes and leadership.
• Working in an agile environment and enjoying being a self-starter.
• Able to develop backend using Java Spring Boot or Python.
• Able to understand the business and leverage tech to enable business, compliance, auditing, and regulatory needs.