Backend Engineer

Dispatch; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity options

100% company-paid insurance premiums for family coverage

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Office space in San Francisco and New York

Job summary

Dispatch is seeking a backend engineer in San Francisco to build and scale integration infrastructure. You will tackle complex data challenges, maintain integrations, and work with an experienced team to enhance connectivity across financial systems.

The ideal candidate has 4-6 years of backend experience and strong skills in API design and data optimization. Dispatch offers competitive salary, equity options, and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of backend engineering experience with a track record of shipping reliable systems.
• Strong fundamentals in backend development including API design and performance optimization.
• Experience with relational databases and distributed systems concepts.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrations with third-party financial systems.
• Solve complex data mapping and synchronization challenges.
• Collaborate with frontend, product, and design teams.

Skills

API design

Data modeling

Concurrent systems

Performance optimization

Building integrations

Tools

Golang

Redis

PostgreSQL

AWS SQS

Amazon S3

Job description

About Us

The financial advisory industry is a $80T market in the US, but has seen little technological innovation compared to the self‑service market (Robinhood, Betterment, Wealthfront, SoFi). Client data management is a universally painful and expensive problem for financial advisors. Today, advisors manually collect, update, and utilize client data across the 7‑10 software tools that they use to run their business. Data transcription and translation across systems is time‑consuming and error‑prone, leading to costly inefficiencies and embarrassing client‑facing problems. Managing data access control, audit logs, and compliance is a constant challenge, particularly in larger organizations. We are building the first wealth tech data orchestration company. We sync client data across a financial advisor's tech stack, unlocking the efficiency of a fully‑integrated software suite with the choice of tools that best fit their business. We are laser‑focused on enabling the best technology experiences for advisors and unlocking the potential of the entire wealth tech software ecosystem. We’re an experienced team of start‑up operators with deep roots in both tech and advisory. You can learn more about us on our website.

Role Details

Role overview

We're looking for a backend engineer to help build and scale our integration infrastructure. You'll work closely with our staff backend engineer to tackle complex problems in data mapping, syncing, and platform reliability while expanding our integration capabilities across the wealth tech ecosystem.

Where you'll make an impact

• Build and maintain integrations with third‑party financial systems, expanding our platform's connectivity across the wealth tech landscape.
• Solve complex data mapping and synchronization challenges, ensuring accurate and reliable data flow between disparate systems with different schemas and constraints.
• Develop platform capabilities that enable seamless, scalable data orchestration for our customers' tech stacks.
• Own end‑to‑end delivery of backend features and services, from design through deployment and monitoring.
• Contribute to our integration infrastructure, building reusable patterns and tooling that make adding new integrations faster and more reliable.
• Collaborate with frontend, product, and design teams to deliver high‑quality customer experiences backed by robust backend systems.

Requirements

• 4‑6 years of backend engineering experience with a track record of shipping reliable, well‑tested systems.
• Strong fundamentals in backend development, including API design, data modeling, concurrent systems, and performance optimization.
• Experience working with relational databases and distributed systems concepts.
• Curious and eager to learn - you're excited to dig into unfamiliar systems, understand complex integrations, and grow your technical skills.
• Bias toward action and ownership - you see a problem, propose solutions, and drive it to completion without needing constant direction.
• Strong communication skills and comfort working cross‑functionally with product, design, and other engineers.
• Thrive in fast‑paced environments with evolving priorities and high autonomy.
• Interest and experience with AI tools and prompting - you leverage AI in your workflow and can help level up the team's capabilities.

You’ll stand out if you have

• Experience building integrations, ETL pipelines, or working with third‑party APIs at scale.
• Exposure to financial services, fintech, or B2B SaaS products.
• Experience at seed/early‑stage startups where you wore multiple hats and moved quickly.
• Familiarity with event‑driven architectures, message queues, or data synchronization patterns.
• Previously built side projects or contributed to open source software.

Our tech stack

Golang, Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS SQS, Amazon S3

Why Dispatch?

• We’re a highly experienced team with a track record of successfully building together. We’re well‑versed in building for the best tech companies and asset managers.
• We’re a well‑funded company backed by top‑tier investors.
• We're laser‑focused on customers and believe that a world‑class user experience is critical for product and business success.
• We move fast, iterate quickly, and have a high bar for what “excellent” looks like.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity options
• High‑quality benefits package including 100% company‑paid insurance premiums for family coverage (medical, vision, dental).
• 401K, HSA & FSA plans
• OneMedical, HealthAdvocate, TalkSpace, and Teladoc memberships
• Technology stipend
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave
• Office space in San Francisco and New York for in‑person working

Dispatch provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.