Backend/Infrastructure Engineer

What you will do

• Designing and building highly reliable backend services for transaction processing and financial operations.
• Developing scalable services that support order processing, account balances, funding workflows, reconciliation, and other mission-critical financial functions.
• Building resilient distributed systems capable of handling failures gracefully through robust retry strategies, idempotent processing, event-driven architectures, and strong observability.
• Working closely with engineering leadership to define backend architecture, engineering standards, and long-term technical direction.
• Integrating with third-party financial institutions, banking partners, identity verification providers, and other external platforms.
• Building internal operational tools that improve visibility, troubleshooting, reconciliation, and support workflows.
• Contributing to infrastructure supporting AI-powered financial research and data processing initiatives.
• Participating in production operations, monitoring, incident response, and continuous platform improvements.

What you will need

• Around 6+ years of experience building production backend systems.
• Strong experience designing scalable distributed systems running in production.
• Hands-on experience with backend technologies such as Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C#, Rust, or similar modern languages.
• Strong understanding of databases, event-driven architectures, messaging systems, caching, and scalable infrastructure.
• Experience designing systems where correctness, consistency, and reliability are essential.
• Solid understanding of transactions, concurrency, retries, reconciliation, and failure recovery.
• Experience supporting production systems, including monitoring, debugging, and incident management.
• Comfortable working in fast-moving startup environments where priorities evolve quickly and engineers take ownership beyond writing code.
• Strong English communication skills and the ability to collaborate with distributed international teams.