Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Signify Technology is supporting a well-funded, early-stage fintech company modernizing financial operations for a large B2B industry. The Staff Backend Engineer will scale and optimize an existing high-traffic backend, improve performance and reliability, and work closely with technical founders in a small engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Scaling the systems behind that volume
- Scale what already exists, optimize performance as usage grows, and keep things reliable when load increases
Skills
- Staff-level backend experience with strong current hands-on Ruby on Rails work
- Time spent inside a high-traffic, complex production system at scale (not early-stage or pre-scale), with direct experience improving performance and reliability as volume grew
- Distributed systems experience: scaling infrastructure that already had real users depending on it, not building something new from a blank slate
- High ownership mindset and comfort operating with a small, engineering-first team
- Experience with fintech or payments systems
- Experience with background job processing and caching at scale (e.g. Sidekiq, Redis)
- Contributions to open-source projects or other pro bono development work
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Health benefits
- 100% Remote (US & Canada)
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