Backend Systems Engineer – Real-Time Payments & Fraud

REALM; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

REALM is seeking a senior backend engineer to scale core systems powering real-time fraud and risk processing. You will own end-to-end feature delivery, shape architecture, and set technical direction while collaborating with cross-functional teams across security, payments, and compliance.

Requirements include 6+ years in software engineering with production Go or Java, strong distributed-systems fundamentals, and a proven track record mentoring engineers and leading critical projects at scale.

Qualifications

• At least six years of software engineering experience with production-grade Go or Java.
• Platform-team and architecture experience; ability to mentor engineers and lead projects.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems and data structures.

Skills

Go

Java

Backend Engineering

System Architecture

Feature Implementation

Service Re-Architecture

Distributed Systems

Technical Leadership

Mentoring

Transaction Processing

Payments

Fraud

Disputes

Financial Services

Job description

REALM is seeking a senior backend engineer to scale core systems powering real-time fraud and risk processing. You will own end-to-end feature delivery, shape architecture, and set technical direction while collaborating with cross-functional teams across security, payments, and compliance.

Requirements include 6+ years in software engineering with production Go or Java, strong distributed-systems fundamentals, and a proven track record mentoring engineers and leading critical projects at scale.