Junior Backend Engineer

This is a remote position.

Junior Backend Engineer



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Job descriptions:
Join our client's dynamic, venture-backed fintech startup that's revolutionizing how consumers pay their bills. They are building a cutting-edge bill-pay platform for the 2020s and beyond and are looking for a driven Senior Backend Engineer to join their team.


About our Client
The world of consumer bills has rapidly transformed and become more complex, largely due to the widespread adoption of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) options like Klarna, Afterpay, and Affirm. This has resulted in consumers juggling numerous additional payments each month on top of their regular bills, utilities, and subscriptions. Consequently, tens of millions of Americans struggle financially, often missing payments, incurring fees and penalties, and harming their credit scores.
My client identified a critical gap between the current landscape of consumer bills and the tools available to manage them effectively. Over the past three years, they developed a one-stop solution where consumers can manage, pay, and build credit with their bills, subscriptions, and BNPL payments. Since their launch, they’ve quickly become the go-to bill-pay method for their users, processing over $1.5M in transactions each month.


What Sets My Client Apart
They were the first company to automate bank fee negotiation.
They uniquely integrate BNPL loan schedules into monthly budgets alongside recurring bills, utilities, and subscriptions.
They built an innovative calendar sync that automatically streams due dates and bill statuses to the user’s favorite calendar.
They utilize unique data sources to provide a holistic, forward-looking view of consumers’ finances, going beyond the status quo of historical transaction data.
The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be at the forefront of my client's culture of innovation. You'll work on creating valuable data sets and products that have never been offered before, using LLMs and other ML models to structure and derive insights from messy, unstructured data. Your work will empower consumers with unprecedented insights into their finances.


What You’ll Be Doing
Work directly with our founder, product managers, and engineering team to build an innovative bill-pay platform
Write high-quality code that scales to the needs of our platform and users
Design, build, and maintain the backend of our bill pay platform
Design, build, and maintain SQL databases
Build and maintain important third-party integrations, including bank connectivity and payments execution
Enhance our dev ops stack and workflows
Enhance and maintain AWS infrastructure
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Be expected to balance immediate business impact with scalability and/or long-term considerations
Consistently execute on your deliverables in a timely manner
Surface blockers that inhibit the pace of development
Fearlessly take on projects across the stack
Operate with a sense of urgency
About You
You thrive in a small, nimble, venture-backed startup environment.
You are an outstanding engineer, capable of extracting insights from data, building models, and deploying them into production independently.
You are a self-starter who moves fast and makes things happen.
You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and relish being at the forefront of driving the company forward.
You are data-driven, measuring both the magnitude of problems and the impact of solutions.
You are fearless in the face of adversity.
You have a passion for learning, expanding your skills, and growing both personally and professionally.
Your Background:
5+ years of full-time Software Engineering experience after getting your undergraduate degree
Experience with Python (experience with Django is a plus)
Experience with relational databases and SQL
Experience deploying and scaling applications on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc
Experience with web technologies: Javascript and CSS. React knowledge is a plus
Bonus: Startup experience
Bonus: Experience working at a FinTech or financial institution
Bonus: Payments or consumer lending experience


Benefits:


Competitive salary
Bonus + Equity stock option
Healthcare/vision/dental 100% coverage
Learning and development resources
401k
Unlimited PTO
Fully Remote and flexible working environment
Care for employees' financial, physical, and mental health