Job Details

Job Overview

Sr. Backend Engineer 100% Remote

Salary: $150,000.00 $180,000.00 per year, plus equity

Responsibilities

• Own and drive technical projects from architecture to delivery
• Build scalable, fault?tolerant services on AWS (Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Refactor legacy code for long?term clarity, testability, and scalability
• Translate customer and product insights into high?leverage workflow automation
• Participate in the on?call rotation to ensure uptime and reliability
• Help shape team culture through mentorship, feedback, and ownership

Qualifications

Must have

• 7+ years building production systems in Python
• Deep experience designing, scaling, and operating pub/sub or event?driven architectures
• Comfortable working in AWS?native stacks, especially Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, EventBridge, SNS
• Experience with DLQs, batching, retries, backoff strategies, alarm setup
• Infrastructure?as?code (CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform)
• Experience building resilient multi?tenant systems that prioritize observability and fault isolation
• Willing to work in Ruby/Rails short?term and eventually help transition toward Python?based infrastructure upon achieving business growth milestones

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous migration experience (e.g., monolith to event?driven, language conversions, infra hardening)
• Background in automation, agent frameworks, or AI systems (bonus, not required)

Benefits & Culture

• Big impact Join a core team where your code directly affects users and outcomes
• Hands?on autonomy Own projects end?to?end and help shape system architecture from the ground up
• Smart, no?fluff culture Work with a team that values clarity, extreme ownership, and fast iteration
• Mission?driven Build tools that help community banks compete in a world of megafintech
• Startup agility Ship daily, influence product, and leave a legacy

Employment Details

Senior Software Engineer role hosted by Katherine Krull via Jobot. 100% Remote. Full?time.

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