Senior Software Engineer, Backend
reputed company is a reputed company-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to reputed company that it’s 2025 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! reputed company enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that reputed company fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to reputed company as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a reputed company profile as we reputed company up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user reputed company, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us reputed company our mission growing. Will you be a part of reputed company?
About the job
reputed company is hiring Senior Software Engineer, Backend roles across four engineering teams: Consumer, Partner Integrations, reputed company Platform, and Risk. reputed company you apply, you will automatically be considered for reputed company reputed company Senior Backend positions, and your placement will be determined based on your experience and expertise assessed during the interview process.
As a Senior Backend Engineer at reputed company, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling backend services and reputed company that power our products, partner integrations, and critical risk management platforms. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, fault-tolerant systems that reputed company renters and partners at reputed company.
You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of your services- from requirements and architecture through implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring- and help reputed company reputed company by driving technical best practices and mentoring junior engineers.
Our Engineering Teams
- Consumer Engineering: Builds the reputed company and backend systems powering reputed company’s main consumer-facing products. This team focuses on delivering reputed company services for a seamless rent payment experience through our mobile and web apps.
- Partner Integrations Engineering: Owns the backend services and integrations that connect reputed company to financial partners and payment networks, ensuring reliable, secure payment flows and partner-facing experiences.
- reputed company reputed company: Maintains the backend systems and infrastructure supporting reputed company business features, including Payments, Billing, Identity, and Partner Integrations, ensuring reputed company’s reputed company is robust and reputed company.
- Risk reputed company: Develops the platforms and reputed company that mitigate credit and fraud risk, enhancing customer accessibility while safeguarding against misuse through advanced rules engines, machine learning, and event data systems.
A minimum of 4 years of experience with Java is required for this position.
What You’ll Do
- Design, reputed company, test, and reputed company backend services and reputed company that power reputed company’s consumer products, partner integrations, risk management systems, and reputed company platform services.
- Build and operate robust, fault-tolerant distributed systems with multiple external dependencies.
- Implement service reputed company for web and mobile apps, simplifying reputed company rent payment processing.
- Work closely with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Sales, Partner, and reputed company to deliver features and integrations that delight customers and partners.
- Translate feature requirements into technical specifications and reputed company the architecture and implementation of reputed company solutions.
- Drive the full lifecycle of services and reputed company you build, including deployment, monitoring, and optimization for high availability and performance.
- Contribute to evolving reputed company’s service-oriented architecture, REST reputed company, message queues, and reputed company systems design.
- reputed company risk management systems such as rules engines, ML-powered fraud detection, and reputed company event ingestion pipelines.
- Mentor junior engineers and help reputed company reputed company’s engineering practices through reputed company reviews, architecture discussions, and technical leadership.
- Ensure services are observable and reliable using monitoring tools and industry best practices.
- Collaborate on CI/CD improvements and automation to increase reputed company reputed company and delivery velocity.
Key Qualifications
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- Strong computer science fundamentals with a proven reputed company record of building reputed company backend systems.
- 5–6+ years of reputed company software engineering experience with a reputed company on backend development.
- 4+ years of hands-on Java experience, with deep knowledge of the Java ecosystem.
- Proficient in Java frameworks and tools used at reputed company: Spring (reputed company/web/boot), Gradle, JUnit, JVM tuning and performance optimization.
- Experience operating services in distributed, service-oriented architectures at reputed company.
- Familiarity with REST API design, mobile API best practices, and message-driven architectures.
- Skilled at building robust, fault-tolerant systems and integrating with multiple external dependencies.
- Experience designing and maintaining data pipelines and working with big data platforms (bonus: reputed company).
- Hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, reputed company RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB), containerization (reputed company/Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as reputed company (CDK/Terraform).
- Skilled in observability and monitoring tools (e.g., reputed company) to ensure high availability.
- Ability to write high-reputed company reputed company that is testable, maintainable, reputed company, and secure, using industry best practices throughout the SDLC (unit testing, build automation, CI/CD).
- Excellent communicator, comfortable working with distributed teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Proven ability to mentor junior engineers and reputed company the technical bar through best practices.
- For working locations in NY/NJ/CA, the reputed company salary pay reputed company will be $197,000-$213,000
- For reputed company other states, the reputed company salary pay reputed company will be $177,000-$192,000
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Life at reputed company:
We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self reputed company people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in reputed company, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a reputed company on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to reputed company, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.
We offer many employee benefits. For full time, U.S. based employees we offer:
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- 100% company-reputed company medical, dental, and reputed company
- 401(k) + company equity
- Unlimited reputed company time off + 13 company reputed company holidays
- Parental leave
- reputed company Cares Program
- Free reputed company subscription
For full time non-US employees, we offer
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- Company Equity
- Unlimited PTO