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Software Engineer - Backend

Parker

Software Engineer - Backend

Parker's mission is simple but ambitious: to increase the number of financially independent people. We believe the best way to achieve this is by giving independent business owners the financial tools they need to scale profitably.

Our core product combines a virtual corporate card with dynamic spending limits and profitability-focused software tooling—empowering eCommerce merchants to grow faster while staying in control of their margins.

We've raised over $180M in equity and debt from world-class investors, including Valar Ventures, Y Combinator, SVB, and notable founders such as Solomon Hykes (Docker), Paul Buchheit (Gmail), Paul Graham (Y Combinator), and Robert Leshner (Compound). We're a Series B fintech scaling rapidly, with strong product-market fit and accelerating demand.

Parker is hiring a Software Engineer - Backend to design and scale the foundational systems that keep our platform fast, reliable, and secure. You'll work on everything from architecting APIs and shaping data models to optimizing infrastructure for performance and growth. We're looking for engineers with a strong systems mindset and 5+ years of experience building backend services from the ground up—someone who values thoughtful abstractions, understands how to move quickly without sacrificing reliability, and enjoys collaborating across product and infrastructure teams to deliver impact at scale.

Basic Qualifications
  • Minimum of four years of experience with modern web technologies such as: Git, Node.js, GraphQL, React, Web API's, Docker, Databases, Kubernetes, Microservices, etc.

  • Interest in building products meant to be used by real users. Meaning the ability to work closely with customers and intuitively make real product decisions

  • Proven abilities in developing your own scalable, products/applications from scratch

  • Strong ability to communicate in English

Who You Are
  • A passionate, determined, and curious thinker who thinks about problems from an engineering perspective

  • Someone who is interested in growing in a fast-paced environment

  • Strong communicator who can articulate your ideas clearly and participate in making difficult decisions

  • A self-starter who can approach general problems and find a direction to take them

  • A hacker with general interest in learning about new technologies and coming up with solutions to unsolved problems

Nice To Haves
  • Experience working within payments or at a fintech company/on a fintech project

  • Experience and subject matter expertise in the e-commerce industry

  • Interest/contributions to open source software

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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