Senior Back End Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineers while stewarding engineering best practices.
• Own defined problems independently from design through implementation and production.
• Build and extend identity and access management capabilities, including authentication, authorization, RBAC, and OAuth/OIDC flows.
• Improve AWS and cloud infrastructure, including security posture, configuration, and operational guardrails.
• Improve performance, security, and optimization for high-volume transactional databases.
• Harden APIs, services, and distributed systems against failure and abuse.
• Participate in incident response and remediation, fix root causes, and improve observability.
• Partner with the Security/CISO team to design and ship durable engineering fixes.
• Build and scale performant, secure services and user-facing web applications.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems.
• Ability to own and drive well-defined problems end to end without close direction.
• Backend engineering focus with comfort working across the full stack.
• Track record of building and shipping work involving security, scale, or infrastructure; this is not a dedicated Security/AppSec role.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science or a similar Engineering or Mathematics field is ideally preferred.
• Ability to learn and work with modern technology stacks including Java, Spring Boot, AWS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, React.js, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
• Fintech, payments, or other security-sensitive and highly regulated environment experience is a plus.
• Strong ownership, communication, resilience, technical aptitude, and creative problem-solving skills.

Benefits

• Hybrid schedule requiring three office days each week in Culver City, California.
• Healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans, including HMO and PPO options.
• 401(k) savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave after one year of employment.
• Professional growth opportunities, an employee mobility program, and an annual learning and development budget.
• Company perks program with discounts on pet insurance, fitness, mobile phone plans, and travel.
• Financial guidance program covering debt, spending, saving, planning, and home-purchasing preparation.
• One-month work-from-anywhere policy, with exceptions for certain countries.
• Amenity-filled offices in Culver City, San Francisco, and Dallas.