The role
- COMP
- $120K - $200K
- LOCATION
- Seattle
- WORKPLACE
- On-site
- EXPERIENCE
- 2 - 5 years
- VISA
- None, Visa transfers
- STACK
- Go, GCP, MySQL, Kubernetes, K8s, CI/CD
- INDUSTRY
- Fintech, Financial Services
/roles — ROLE_269
Senior Backend Engineer
Venture-backed consumer fintech startup offering cash advances and credit-building tools to Americans overlooked by banks
The company
Consumer fintech startup offering cash advances, credit building, and tax tools to hard-working Americans who are underserved by traditional banks.
- STAGE
- Series A-stage
- FUNDING
- $20M+ raised
- TEAM
- ~50 people
- FOUNDED
- 2018
- BACKING
- VC-backed
JD — the work
About the role
You would help rebuild the company's cash advance platform, taking it from a scrappy early system to one that can support hundreds of millions of dollars in originations. It is a generalist backend role: you start from a business goal and own the technical solution fully, spanning financial infrastructure, distributed services, internal tools, and data pipelines. The company builds its ledgers and payment systems in-house, rewards output and impact, and works on-site in Seattle.
What you'll do
- Rebuild the core ledger, transaction processing, and payment integrations to handle 5 to 10x more originations
- Build dependable collection systems that execute precise debits on thousands of small advances each day
- Ingest and process large volumes of partner-supplied customer bank data to drive underwriting and collections
- Use SQL and analytics to guide engineering choices, track system health, and confirm business results
- Run event-driven services on Pub/Sub with asynchronous processing
What they're looking for
- 2 to 5 years of engineering, with backend work making up half or more of your career
- A concrete business result you delivered with technology, beyond simply adding features
- Startup or high-growth experience (Series A or B preferred) and comfort with little direction
- Distributed, data-heavy backend experience; the stack is Go, MySQL, GCP, and Kubernetes
- Data-driven habits: writing SQL, building analyses, and steering by metrics in consumer fintech
- Willingness to work on-site full time in Seattle