Software Development Engineer, Backend

This role is ideal for an engineer with 2 to 5 years of experience who writes clean, well-tested code, cares about correctness and performance, and wants to grow into owning services end-to-end. You will collaborate closely with senior engineers, product, and other pods, learning how we design for scale, reliability, and security in a regulated fintech environment.

• Build, test, and maintain RESTful APIs and backend services in Node.js.
• Model data effectively in MongoDB and use Redis for caching, queues, and rate limiting.
• Contribute to microservices with clean, readable, and well-documented code.

• Write unit and integration tests; participate in code reviews.
• Debug, profile, and fix issues in staging and production.
• Follow secure coding practices in a compliance-sensitive domain.

• Understand the product and business context behind engineering requirements and contribute to shaping solutions, not just implementation.
• Break down tasks, give reliable estimates, and ship iteratively.
• Work with senior engineers on design and integrate feedback quickly.
• Coordinate with frontend, product, and other backend pods on shared contracts.

• Ramp up on distributed systems concepts and asynchronous communication patterns.
• Proactively improve areas of the codebase you touch.

• 2 to 5 years of backend development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience building APIs with Node.js .
• Working experience with MongoDB and Redis .
• Exposure to a microservices architecture.
• Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and problem solving.
• A good team player who collaborates well and gels easily with the team.
• Strong problem-solving ability and product thinking able to understand the underlying user/business problem, break down ambiguous requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and propose practical solutions rather than simply executing predefined tasks.