Senior Backend Engineer - Golang

Job Description

While professional experience and qualifications are key for this role, make sure to check you have the preferable soft skills before applying if required.

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Senior Backend Engineer - Golang - this is an onsite role in Seattle, WA. Salary range: 120-200K USD base plus benefits.

We are a fintech company on a mission to level the financial playing field for hard-working Americans by building products that help users better manage their financial future. Founded in 2018 and backed by $22.5M in funding from top-tier investors including Goodwater Capital, Unusual Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Fika Ventures, and , we've already helped thousands of users access cash advances, build credit, optimize taxes, and more. The company operates a high-velocity cash advance product processing thousands of transactions daily, serving subprime customers who have been underserved by traditional financial institutions.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with 2-5 years of experience to help rebuild and scale our cash advance platform from a scrappy prototype into a system capable of processing hundreds of millions in originations. You'll be a generalist who can take a business outcome and drive the technology end-to-end, working across distributed systems, financial infrastructure, data pipelines, and internal tooling.

What will you be doing?

• Rebuilding core backend systems (ledger, transaction processing, payment integrations) to support 5-10x growth in advance originations
• Building high-reliability, high-scale collection systems that make targeted transactions across thousands of small-cap advances daily
• Ingesting and processing massive volumes of customer banking data from partners to power underwriting and collection decisions
• Using SQL and data analytics to drive engineering decisions, monitor system performance, and validate business outcomes
• Designing and operating event-driven distributed systems with Pub/Sub and asynchronous workflows

Requirements:

2 - 5 years of experience xhyhwjd in backend software engineering, with focus on Go and distributed systems

Has owned a real product/technical outcome end-to-end, can speak to the business impact

Startup experience at Series A/B stage

Background in data-heavy, high-velocity environments (fintech, adtech, analytics, etc.) (Nice-to-have)

Bachelor's degree in CS or related technical field

Full-stack with real backend depth, not primarily front-end (stack-agnostic)

SQL and data analytics — can query data to inform engineering and product decisions

Experience with distributed systems (Nice-to-have)

Must work on-site 5 days/week in Seattle, WA