Senior Backend Engineer - AI Robotics, Payments & Cloud

Figure AI; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Figure AI is building autonomous humanoid robotics with a focus on powering consumer and commercial applications. We are seeking a backend engineer to own the services behind Figure's mobile app, including auth, payments, and tooling.

You will own systems end to end—from identity and billing to delivery pipelines, internal dashboards, and the cloud platform they run on. This role requires tackling high-scale backend challenges and shipping reliable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backend systems at scale.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals: APIs, queues, storage, event-driven architecture.
• Hands-on experience with payments, billing, or fintech infrastructure.
• Hands-on infrastructure experience: AWS or GCP, Terraform or similar, containers, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the core auth and identity service, including KYC integration.
• Build payments and billing infrastructure: payouts, transactions, disputes, and reconciliation.
• Own the media ingestion and delivery pipeline for high-volume data ingestion.
• Own the cloud platform: environments, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and cost.
• Ship the notification system across push, SMS, and email.
• Build the web interface and dashboards that give the business visibility into tasks, supply, and quality.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Payments/billing

Cloud tooling

Go/Python

Tools

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Containers

CI/CD

Job description

Figure AI is building autonomous humanoid robotics with a focus on powering consumer and commercial applications. We are seeking a backend engineer to own the services behind Figure's mobile app, including auth, payments, and tooling.

You will own systems end to end—from identity and billing to delivery pipelines, internal dashboards, and the cloud platform they run on. This role requires tackling high-scale backend challenges and shipping reliable infrastructure.