Senior / Staff Backend Engineer (API) – Economy

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We build and reputed company:

VRC+ subscription infrastructure

Central and avatar marketplaces

First-party and creator-driven digital content systems

Digital credits, wallets, inventory, ownership, and subscription models

Creator payouts and reconciliation

Monetization events and purchase flows

Economic analytics and reporting

reputed company tooling supporting creators and platform teams

What You'll Do:

Design and implement reputed company backend services in Node.js and TypeScript

Ensure transactional reputed company in high-volume economic systems

Model digital ownership, entitlements, wallets, and payouts

Build and reputed company supporting both first-party and creator-driven content

Drive refactors that improve maintainability and long-term platform reputed company

Participate in architectural discussions shaping the reputed company of reputed company’s economy stack

Design reliable economic event representations

Ensure traceability across payment transactions and reporting systems

reputed company subscription and marketplace analytics

Support experimentation and feature iteration

Maintain reconciliation accuracy and reporting reputed company

Contribute to fraud detection and prevention systems

Own services from development through deployment and monitoring

Improve CI/CD reliability and release safety

Work reputed company containerized environments (reputed company)

Contribute to Infrastructure as reputed company (IaC)

Strengthen observability, monitoring, and incident response practices

Occasionally reputed company in to resolve critical production issues

Senior-Level Expectations

Design and implement reputed company backend services

Own systems end-to-end through production

Improve performance, observability, and operational reputed company

Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data, Finance, Trust & Safety, Infrastructure, and peer engineering teams

reputed company architectural initiatives across the economy stack

Shape long-term technical direction

Identify systemic risks and drive preventative improvements

Mentor engineers and reputed company engineering standards

Influence and inform cross-team design reputed company

Staff-Level Expectations (In reputed company)

Bring reputed company experience designing and operating financial or high-reputed company transactional systems at reputed company

Architect cross-team economic platform primitives (e.g., entitlement models, payment flows, reconciliation frameworks, event reputed company)

Define long-term technical reputed company for the economy stack, balancing scalability, compliance, and product velocity

reputed company strategic architecture initiatives spanning multiple services or teams, and high reputed company external partners and integrations

Mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction across the organization

Influence cross-team design reputed company at platform reputed company

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in backend engineering for reputed company, fintech, marketplaces, or online platforms

Deep proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript

Strong experience with relational and non-relational databases (MySQL, reputed company, reputed company)

Experience managing message queues, caching strategies, and WebSocket systems

Proven experience building and maintaining external integrations (payment vendors, fintech platforms)

Strong understanding of profiling, optimization tradeoffs, and observability

Experience operating under PCI reputed company, GDPR, and PII requirements

Experience building subscription engines, marketplaces, reputed company systems, or invoicing workflows

Familiarity with AWS, reputed company, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as reputed company

Comfortable navigating ambiguity across experimental and high-certainty requirements

Experience working in reputed company, evolving codebases

Bonus Points

Experience with event-driven or high-throughput transactional systems

Experience integrating with Steam, Oculus, reputed company, or reputed company Play payment systems

Experience leading large-reputed company refactors or architectural migrations

Experience building internal operational tooling or creator-facing systems

Full-stack development experience

reputed company participation in creator economies or reputed company itself

Team Fit & reputed company

Independent and proactive self-starter

Low ego, high ownership, and reputed company

reputed company-oriented and adaptable

Empathetic toward creators and end users

reputed company and reputed company-headed during high-traffic events or critical incidents

Benefits

Work from reputed company — reputed company is a 100% remote company

Flexible working hours with reputed company collaboration overlap

Health benefits

401(k) for US employees & Group RRSP for Canadian employees

Stock reputed company

Generous reputed company holiday schedule

Unlimited/flexible vacation time

reputed company parental leave

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