Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FINN is a fintech company building simple and transparent products that improve financial well-being for underbanked employees. The Senior Backend Engineer will be responsible for building and shipping backend services, contributing to technical direction, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to define solutions.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship backend services that power our financial products — APIs, automation pipelines, and cloud infrastructure
- Own features end-to-end: dig into the problem, design the approach, ship fast, and iterate based on real usage
- Contribute to technical direction — advocate for better patterns, tooling, and developer experience
- Partner with product and engineering to define solutions, not just execute specs
- Write clean, reliable code at a high pace — quality and speed, not one or the other
- Raise the bar for the team through code reviews, technical input, and leading by example
Skills
- 5+ years shipping backend systems in production — APIs, services, cloud infrastructure
- Strong fundamentals in at least one of our core languages (TypeScript, Python, PHP)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP), containerization, and CI/CD
- Ability to operate independently: you take ownership of a problem and drive it forward
- Pragmatic judgment on architecture vs. shipping and learning
- Clear communicator who can articulate tradeoffs and advocate for their approach
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