About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Software Engineer based in United States.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and continuously improve complex software products and systems.
- Take end-to-end ownership of features, applications, and technical systems from initial design through production and ongoing optimization.
- Develop full-stack solutions using modern web technologies, with a strong focus on backend systems and services.
- Build and scale high-throughput distributed systems in cloud environments.
- Design and evolve scalable relational database architectures, data models, and data-intensive applications.
- Implement and maintain modern cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code solutions.
- Identify and address potential security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability risks as systems evolve.
- Contribute to architectural decisions as user adoption, data volumes, and transaction loads increase.
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to translate ambiguous business and technical problems into effective solutions.
- Improve engineering productivity through better tooling, processes, architecture, and development practices.
- Contribute to system health through monitoring, resilience, maintainability, and operational improvements.
- Support products and workflows that may incorporate AI, experimentation, model evaluation, or data-driven capabilities.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong full-stack development background, with substantial experience working on backend systems.
- Recent, hands-on experience building complex products and systems using TypeScript.
- Experience working in high-growth technology companies, startups, or similarly fast-paced product environments.
- Proven ability to take ownership of features or systems across design, development, deployment, and ongoing improvement.
- Experience building and scaling high-throughput distributed systems in cloud environments.
- Strong understanding of relational databases, data modeling, and scalable database design.
- Experience with modern cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code.
- Ability to identify and proactively address security, reliability, scalability, and architectural risks.
- Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working through ambiguous technical and product challenges.
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment while collaborating effectively with product and engineering teams.
- Demonstrated progression toward broader technical ownership, increasingly complex problems, or greater influence within an organization.
- Experience launching products, features, platforms, tools, or technical systems from early concepts through production is highly valuable.
- Experience with FinTech, payments, marketplaces, or other transaction-heavy environments is a plus.
- Experience scaling complex relational data models and databases is a plus.
- Exposure to AI-enabled products, experimentation, model evaluation, or data-driven workflows is beneficial.
- Demonstrated technical curiosity through open-source contributions, GitHub activity, personal projects, or other hands-on development is valued.
Conditions
- Suggested base compensation range of $160,000–$200,000 USD.
- Remote work opportunity within the United States.
- Opportunity to take significant ownership of technical implementation and product outcomes.
- Hands-on involvement in building and scaling a modern cloud-based platform.
- Exposure to complex distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, scalable databases, and product architecture.
- Fast-paced, product-focused environment with opportunities to solve ambiguous and challenging problems.
- Opportunity to influence engineering practices, tooling, architecture, and technical direction.
- Collaborative culture that values mutual respect, acceptance, fairness, and dignity.
- Compensation determined based on factors including skills, education, certifications, geographic location, and overall experience.