Job Description
Software Engineer – Backend / Full Stack
📍 New York, NY
🏢 On-site Monday–Thursday; work from home Friday
💰 $180,000–$230,000 base salary + competitive equity
💼 Full-time
🛂 Open to OPT and H-1B visa transfers
About the Opportunity
We’re recruiting for a fast-growing fintech startup building financial infrastructure for the nonprofit and charitable-giving ecosystem. Its platform already processes billions of dollars in payments and supports more than 100,000 nonprofit donation forms.
The company is looking for a Backend / Full Stack Engineer with 2–10 years of backend engineering experience. You’ll join a small, high-caliber engineering team and own systems end to end—from architecture and technical design through deployment and production.
This is a high-autonomy position with direct access to the founders and leadership team. Your judgment will influence both what gets built and how the engineering organization operates.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and own backend services and components powering a large-scale payment platform
- Take projects from architecture and technical planning through deployment and production support
- Contribute to decisions involving APIs, infrastructure, data systems, and engineering best practices
- Build reliable, scalable systems for processing high-volume financial transactions
- Improve real-time monitoring and alerting to provide better visibility into product performance and user behavior
- Collaborate directly with founders, product leaders, and engineers through whiteboarding and technical discussions
- Work across different areas of the platform rather than being limited to a single product line
- Help establish technical standards as the engineering team and platform continue to scale
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What We’re Looking For
- 2–10 years of professional backend engineering experience
- Strong experience designing and building production-grade backend applications
- Ability to independently own complex projects from initial design through launch
- Solid understanding of APIs, databases, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
- Strong technical judgment and the confidence to contribute meaningfully to architecture decisions
- Clear communication skills and a collaborative, low-ego approach to technical debate
- Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment with limited layers and high ownership
- Willingness to work from the New York City office Monday through Thursday
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Technology Stack
- Go
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- REST APIs and gRPC
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
Direct experience with every technology is not required, but candidates should have strong backend fundamentals and the ability to learn new systems quickly.
Compensation
- $180,000–$230,000 base salary
- Competitive equity
- Compensation may exceed the stated range for candidates with exceptional experience and strong interview performance
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