Remote Backend Engineer - Scale a Fintech Platform

Fintech Industry; United States; Remote; USD 58,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

VSOPs equity

Job summary

Coverflex is seeking a Backend Engineer (Mid to Senior) for a remote European role. You’ll build and optimize scalable APIs powering a compensation platform, focusing on reliability, observability, and performance.

Expect close collaboration with product managers and designers to ship meaningful features that impact thousands of employees. We value production-ready mindset, small PRs, and strong product thinking, with multi-market support across Portugal, Italy, and Spain.

Qualifications

• Production-ready mindset
• Shipping in small PRs with CI/CD
• Product thinking - you care about user outcomes
• Collaborative and easy to work with - you value team practices and feedback

Responsibilities

• Build reliable, scalable APIs and optimizations for performance
• Own end-to-end features from discovery to delivery
• Shape architectural decisions with product managers and designers
• Ensure testing, observability, and monitoring are in place
• Ship features that improve compensation platform functionality and reliability
• Collaborate across product, data, and infra teams to deliver value

Skills

Production-ready mindset

Small PRs

Product thinking

Collaborative work

Tools

Elixir

Phoenix

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Github

Github Actions

ConfigCat

Datadog

Job description

Coverflex is seeking a Backend Engineer (Mid to Senior) for a remote European role. You’ll build and optimize scalable APIs powering a compensation platform, focusing on reliability, observability, and performance.

Expect close collaboration with product managers and designers to ship meaningful features that impact thousands of employees. We value production-ready mindset, small PRs, and strong product thinking, with multi-market support across Portugal, Italy, and Spain.