Senior Backend Engineer — Finance & Payments Platform

Fora (Interview Calendar); New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Health Insurance

Dental & Vision Insurance

Wellhub Memberships

401k plan with company match

Commuter Benefits

Supplemental Life Insurance

Stock Options

Job summary

Fora, a modern travel platform in New York City, is seeking a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer for the Finance Pod to own the advisor payments system. You’ll design scalable backend services, handle booking ingestion, payout logic, and reconciliation, and partner with Product and Ops to elevate the Advisor Portal.

We value strong API design, data modeling, and reliability, with a background in FinTech and Stripe integrations. Hybrid NYC role with competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5+ years experience in backend web development.
• 3+ years experience with Python, using Django / Flask / equivalent frameworks.
• Strong experience designing APIs and distributed systems that handle financial or transactional data.
• Experience with relational databases, ORMs, and data models that support accounting or ledger-based workflows.
• Background in FinTech, Payments, or Infrastructure—especially systems involving reconciliation, double-entry accounting, or money movement is highly preferred.
• AWS experience, a plus
• Kubernetes experience, a plus
• Ability to be a team player, with strong communication and collaboration skills
• An entrepreneurial mindset

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Managers and Designers to define and prioritize the roadmap for advisor payments, commission earnings, and revenue systems
• Design and maintain distributed systems that process booking, payment, and reconciliation data at scale
• Build and optimize backend services that power payout logic, transaction timing, ledger accuracy, and integrations with third-party payment platforms
• Focus on performance, architecture, data modeling, and transactional reliability in all systems you own
• Collaborate with other engineers to define end-to-end engineering solutions that connect frontend experiences with secure, verifiable backend processes
• Own epics and be responsible for the full solution—design, implementation, and delivery

Skills

Backend development

Python

APIs

Relational databases

FinTech

Django/Flask

AWS

Kubernetes

Team collaboration

Entrepreneurial mindset

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Stripe

Job description

Fora, a modern travel platform in New York City, is seeking a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer for the Finance Pod to own the advisor payments system. You’ll design scalable backend services, handle booking ingestion, payout logic, and reconciliation, and partner with Product and Ops to elevate the Advisor Portal.

We value strong API design, data modeling, and reliability, with a background in FinTech and Stripe integrations. Hybrid NYC role with competitive compensation.