Senior Backend Engineer - AI Credit Infra (Remote)

Slope; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Slope is building AI-native credit infrastructure for B2B commerce and seeks a senior backend engineer to own the backend systems powering embedded credit, payments, and underwriting.

You will design and implement production-grade services, improve data pipelines, and collaborate across teams to ship reliable, scalable solutions that impact underwriting decisions and customer experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in fast-moving environments.
• Strong production backend experience with Node.js/TypeScript.
• Strong SQL skills; comfortable with relational databases, data warehouses, ETL pipelines and messy data.
• Experience designing APIs, services, jobs, data models and contracts used by other teams.
• Experience in payments infrastructure and credit-related systems.
• Track record of shipping reliable, high-uptime systems with clear ownership.
• High agency: ability to define and clarify problems with minimal direction.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to explain tradeoffs and failure modes.
• Product judgment: focusing on real user impact in underwriting workflows.
• Experience with AWS, Postgres, Snowflake; queues, async jobs; observability tools; and third-party financial APIs.
• Excitement around AI-native infrastructure and agentic workflows.
• Startup experience in a high-ownership environment is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and own production systems for underwriting, bank-data review, credit review workflows, and portfolio monitoring.
• Create reusable infrastructure for evidence gathering, decisioning, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Develop internal tools for the credit risk team to review data, understand decisions, handle exceptions, and move faster without sacrificing correctness.
• Clearly communicate technical assumptions, tradeoffs, failure modes, system boundaries, and migration plans.
• Own ambiguous projects end-to-end: define the problem, propose a path, align across teams, ship production slices, measure, and iterate.
• Improve reliability, latency, and correctness of systems that directly affect credit decisions and customer experience.

Skills

Backend engineering

Node.js/TypeScript

SQL/Relational databases

APIs & services design

Payments infrastructure

Cloud/AWS

Data pipelines/ETL

Communication

AI-native infra

Startup experience

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

Queues/Async jobs

Observability tooling

Job description

Slope is building AI-native credit infrastructure for B2B commerce and seeks a senior backend engineer to own the backend systems powering embedded credit, payments, and underwriting.

You will design and implement production-grade services, improve data pipelines, and collaborate across teams to ship reliable, scalable solutions that impact underwriting decisions and customer experience.