Backend Engineer III - Accounts Team

Stash Invest; New York (NY); Remote; USD 113,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to democratizing wealth creation. As a key member of the Accounts Team, you'll manage and enhance a cutting-edge Core Banking System built with Go, ensuring scalability and reliability. This innovative firm values diversity and inclusion, offering a remote-first work policy and a comprehensive rewards package. If you're passionate about fintech and eager to tackle challenges in building the next generation of banking infrastructure, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive total rewards package

Remote-first work policy

Flexible PTO

Annual learning reimbursement

Work-from-home equipment stipends

Paid Parental Leave

Enhanced health and wellness benefits

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of backend software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Go or willingness to learn.
• Experience with relational and distributed databases.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain backend services for the Core Banking System.
• Implement asynchronous workflows for banking transactions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for seamless experiences.

Skills

Go

Asynchronous Architecture

Event-Driven Architecture

Problem-Solving Skills

Testing Best Practices

Tools

CockroachDB

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Datadog

Kafka

Job description

Want to help everyday Americans invest and build wealth? Financial inequality is increasing, and too many people are getting left behind. At Stash, we are passionate about democratizing wealth creation through education, advice, and products that help customers achieve greater financial freedom.

As a key member of theAccounts Team, you will play a pivotal role in managing and enhancing ourCore Banking System. Our system is built usingGo, with a robustasynchronous architecture, andCockroachDB as the primary database. We are looking for engineers who are eager to tackle challenges in fintech, build scalable backend services, and contribute to the next generation of banking infrastructure.

What you'll do:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services for our Core Banking System, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Architect and implement robust asynchronous workflows to process banking transactions efficiently.
• Optimize and scale our system as we continue to grow, ensuring high availability and security.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including operations and infrastructure teams, to deliver seamless experiences.
• Continuously deploy and monitor services in a cloud-based environment.
• Debug, test, and document code to ensure high-quality software development.

What we're looking for:

• 3 - 5 years of professional experience in backend software development.
• Strong proficiency in Go (or deep experience in another backend language with a willingness to learn Go).
• Experience working with event-driven, asynchronous architectures.
• Proficiency in working with relational and distributed databases, preferably CockroachDB, PostgreSQL, or similar.
• Hands-on experience building highly scalable, fault-tolerant backend services.
• A strong understanding of testing best practices, debugging, and profiling.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a mindset for continuous improvement.

Gold Stars:

• Experience working with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Knowledge of multi-region architectures.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, and Datadog.
• Experience with Kafka or other messaging queues.
• Understanding of banking or fintech-related systems.

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Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We proudly celebrate the unique qualities that make you you, 365 days a year, and not just because it’s the right thing to do or good for business. We embed the principles and practices of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into all that we do to prioritize people, a Stash core value , and to ensure Stashers of all backgrounds and experiences can be their authentic selves.

We are also proud to be the first and only venture-backed fintech to join the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion , and as an Equal Opportunity Employer, Stash is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds.

If you require any reasonable accommodations to make your application process more accessible, please reach out to [e-mail].

Helping You Invest in Yourself

• Comprehensive total rewards package, comprising compensation (salary and equity) and health care benefits
• Remote-first work policy – Live and work where you feel the most productive, whether that is in your home, in an office.
• Flexible PTO
• Annual learning and development reimbursement benefit
• Work-from-home equipment stipends; home internet subsidy
• Paid Parental Leave (offerings for birth giving and non-birth giving parents) Primary & Secondary
• Enhanced health and wellness benefits through One Medical, Gympass, and Maven Health

External Recognition for Stash

• Benzinga’s 2023 Best Brokerage for Beginners and Best Robo-Advisor Awards
• USA Today and Statista’s 2023 Top 500 Best Financial Advisory Firms
• Comparably's Best Company Awards: Best Places to Work, Best Company Outlook, and Best Engineering Team for Diversity, Women, Culture, and more! (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Award: Best Personal Finance App (2023)
• BuiltIn’s Best Places to Work (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)
• LendIt Fintech Innovator of the Year (2020, 2019)

Salary Range: $113,923 - $170,884

The base salary range represents the reasonably anticipated low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience and competencies, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data for companies of our size and industry.

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