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Series C fintech infra · United States

Senior Backend Engineer

Remote$250k–$300k base + 0.15–0.35% equity
Type
Remote
Visa
None; will transfer an existing H-1B
Experience
7+ years

The Opportunity

The company is rebuilding its risk engine from a monolith into event-driven services under real transaction load. You would own a service end to end, not a ticket queue — founding-engineer scope without the seed-stage salary.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Design and ship event-driven services (back-pressure, idempotency, replay)
  • Own the migration path off the monolith, service by service
  • Carry the pager for what you build

Key Requirements

  • Strong distributed-systems background; you have run queues in production
  • Comfortable with Postgres under load

Tech Stack

Go, Kafka, Postgres, AWS.


Application Questions

  1. Describe a distributed system you designed and what broke first in production.
  2. Our stack is Go and Kafka on AWS — which parts have you shipped and owned?