Senior Backend Engineer (L5) - Banking

📋 Description

• Own the technical direction for the banking core: ledgers, payouts, reconciliation, and settlement.
• Lead architecture reviews for new financial systems and high-risk changes.
• Define and maintain standards for money-handling code — idempotency, consistency, audit trails.
• Design and build shared banking foundations, reducing systemic technical debt.
• Own the reliability and observability bar for money flows and incident response.
• Mentor senior engineers and help set hiring standards.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience as a senior or staff backend engineer with ownership of complex production
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability, performance, and scalability trade-offs.
• Strong judgment on correctness under failure — retries, idempotency, safe data handling.
• Excellent technical communication to lead initiatives across teams without formal authority.
• Fluency in a modern TypeScript / Node backend stack and cloud infrastructure.

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Equity in a rapidly growing company.
• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced startup at fintech forefront.
• Impact on global financial infrastructure and collaborative culture.