Senior Backend Architect Fintech Infra, Remote, Equity

latitude-global; United States; Remote; USD 230,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

latitude-global is seeking a senior backend engineer to design scalable backend systems for global money movement. You will own core platform components, drive architectural decisions, and ship production systems from day one.

You will work with leadership to set engineering standards, mentor teammates, and contribute to a fast-paced, high-impact fintech culture with strong emphasis on compliance and security.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Background in high-growth startups or fast-paced environments with significant ownership
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals and experience building reliable, scalable distributed systems
• Proven ability to independently drive complex technical initiatives and make thoughtful architectural decisions
• Experience in infrastructure or DevOps, payments or financial systems, or blockchain and crypto infrastructure
• Authorization to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, production-grade backend services and distributed systems powering payment infrastructure
• Develop core platform components including payment orchestration, ledgering, workflow engines, partner integrations, and public APIs
• Drive architectural decisions and influence engineering standards as the platform scales
• Own projects end-to-end, from technical design through deployment and long-term operation
• Collaborate with engineering and product teammates to solve complex infrastructure and financial-systems challenges
• Mentor teammates, raise the engineering bar, and contribute to a collaborative, kind, high-achieving culture

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

DevOps experience

Payments systems

Blockchain infrastructure

Independent ownership

Tools

Ruby backend

TypeScript frontend

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

latitude-global is seeking a senior backend engineer to design scalable backend systems for global money movement. You will own core platform components, drive architectural decisions, and ship production systems from day one.

You will work with leadership to set engineering standards, mentor teammates, and contribute to a fast-paced, high-impact fintech culture with strong emphasis on compliance and security.