Backend/API Engineer - FinTech Data Orchestration (Remote)

Teal; United States; Remote; USD 99,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Remote-first (Europe)

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Teal is expanding a fintech infrastructure product and seeks a backend-focused software engineer to design and operate services powering income and employment verification. The role is fully remote within Europe, joining a recently funded scale-up as it builds a unified data layer for verification used by lenders and other financial services.

You will work with Kotlin/Java or Python in production, develop cloud-based REST APIs, and collaborate across product, infra, and applied ML teams to push

Qualifications

• Proven backend development experience in production systems.
• Strong knowledge of Kotlin/Java or Python and REST APIs.
• Cloud environments and building scalable services.
• Knowledge of Go, Rust, JS/ES6, C/C++, or C# is welcome if willing to learn Kotlin/Java or Python.
• Interest in fintech infrastructure, identity verification, or data orchestration is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services and REST APIs powering real-time income and employment verification.
• Develop cloud-based services that orchestrate data connections across multiple providers and government sources.
• Contribute to systems delivering affordability data for lending, mortgage, tenant screening, and background checks.
• Collaborate with product, infra, and ML teams to integrate capabilities like large language models.
• Help scale the engineering practices following the recent funding round.

Skills

Kotlin/Java

Python

Go

Rust

JS/ES6

C/C++

C#

Job description

Teal is expanding a fintech infrastructure product and seeks a backend-focused software engineer to design and operate services powering income and employment verification. The role is fully remote within Europe, joining a recently funded scale-up as it builds a unified data layer for verification used by lenders and other financial services.

You will work with Kotlin/Java or Python in production, develop cloud-based REST APIs, and collaborate across product, infra, and applied ML teams to push