Backend Engineer, Fintech APIs & Data

Wwshemi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Wwshemi in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Backend Engineer to join a Series A fintech product engineering team. You will develop backend features that help people manage cash flow, access earnings, and build credit.

You will build end-to-end features, design REST APIs with authentication and rate limiting, and work with Kafka and Pub/Sub for event-driven workflows. On-site in SF, visa sponsorship available.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building backend features for production systems.
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs with authentication, authorization, and rate limiting.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka or Pub/Sub).
• Relational database experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL, including data modeling and query optimization.
• Hands-on CI/CD, version control, automated testing, and code review.
• Experience developing consumer-facing products and using SQL and analytics tools to evaluate performance.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and startup experience preferred.
• Go and GCP experience; distributed systems knowledge is useful.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end product features, including domain models, business logic, and API integrations.
• Deliver incremental releases and iterate based on product and system performance.
• Use SQL and analytics tools to assess product outcomes and system health.
• Debug complex state machines in event-driven systems that use pub/sub messaging.
• Ship code through CI/CD, own implementations through production, and help resolve incidents.

Skills

Backend development

REST APIs design

Event-driven architectures

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Kafka

Pub/Sub

CI/CD pipelines

Automated testing

Go language

GCP

Distributed systems

Tools

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Job description

Wwshemi in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Backend Engineer to join a Series A fintech product engineering team. You will develop backend features that help people manage cash flow, access earnings, and build credit.

You will build end-to-end features, design REST APIs with authentication and rate limiting, and work with Kafka and Pub/Sub for event-driven workflows. On-site in SF, visa sponsorship available.