Lead Backend Engineer/Architect

Roberts Recruiting; Boston (MA); On-site; Full time

Job summary

A recruiting firm is seeking a talented Lead Backend Engineer / Architect for their Boston office. This role involves defining the architecture and developing new products for a fintech mobile application. Candidates should have over 6 years of backend development experience, preferably in a banking environment, and strong skills in NodeJS, AWS, Docker, and SQL. Excellent communication skills are essential as the role involves collaborating with both technical and non-technical teams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in backend development.
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable with non-technical business partners.
• Background in Banking preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive high engineering standards and stay updated on best practices.
• Facilitate build vs buy decisions.
• Design, develop and test SQL data models and REST APIs.
• Mentor new software engineers in best practices.

Skills

Backend development

NodeJS

AWS products

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL

NoSQL

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

We're looking for a talented Lead Backend Engineer / Architect for our Boston office to be a key member of a close-knit agile team that builds the backend platform for our fintech mobile application. You will help define the overall architecture and development of new products and enhancements. You will work with the CTO and software development teams to make decisions about the tech stack, best practices, and design patterns to follow. We want all our engineers to be hands‑on engineers so you’ll also spend a good amount of time coding.

About Us

We're on a mission to accelerate financial inclusion in emerging markets, beginning with Brazil - the 5th largest country in the world, with a population of over 200 million individuals. We have developed an innovative, digital solution to seamlessly provide digital banking, payments, and credit solutions to the tens of millions of underbanked Brazilian consumers nationwide, which aims to alleviate the variety of burdens and high costs related to the deeply entrenched banking industry. Our mission is to empower millions of families to take control of their life with the use of simple, low-cost financial services through their smartphone. It’s a particularly exciting time, filled with the intensive challenges related to undergoing our hyper‑growth phase, and we’re looking for top‑tier talent to help us execute on our mission!

Responsibilities

• Drive and uphold high engineering standards, staying well‑versed in best practices for engineering designs.
• Zoom in and out frequently, spending your time and energy at the highest points of leverage, whether they are high‑level scaling challenges or detailed blockchain discussions.
• Facilitate build vs buy decisions.
• Juggle multiple projects and enjoy experimenting with new technologies.
• Work with teams to ensure non‑functional requirements are considered during all phases of SDLC.
• Design, develop, peer review and test a wide range of features and systems composed of SQL data models, REST APIs, and cryptographic methods.
• Be a hands‑on coder that knows how to bring a story over the finish line.
• Help program and project management in identifying key technical risks and mitigation plans, effort estimation and planning.
• Help mentor new software engineers in best‑practices and strategies.

What you bring

• 6+ years of experience in backend development.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or related field or applicable work experience.
• Experience with a wide range of AWS products and container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication skills; feels comfortable working with non‑technical business partners.
• Experience in NodeJS (preferably in TypeScript) and SQL or NoSQL databases.
• Background in Banking preferred.