Senior Backend Engineer – Fintech Infrastructure & Scale

Lead; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k Matching

Paid parental leave

Flexible vacation

Career growth

Job summary

Lead Bank operates as a modern banking infrastructure platform enabling fintechs to offer compliant, programmable services such as payments, lending, and digital assets at scale. The Engineering team builds secure, scalable financial systems powering money movement, credit, card issuing, and account products for fintechs globally.

The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend systems with performance, reliability and scalability as priorities, collaborating with

Qualifications

• 10+ years shipping large-scale cloud-native systems (AWS).
• Proficient in Go and/or Java; design large-scale systems.
• Demonstrated leadership and mentorship for junior engineers.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication.
• Curious, humble, eager to learn.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain large-scale backend systems.
• Collaborate with product and stakeholders to roadmap features.
• Mentor engineers and grow the team.
• Deliver high-performance and reliable systems.

Skills

Go

Java

AWS

System design

Leadership

Mentorship

Cross-functional

Communication

Job description

Lead Bank operates as a modern banking infrastructure platform enabling fintechs to offer compliant, programmable services such as payments, lending, and digital assets at scale. The Engineering team builds secure, scalable financial systems powering money movement, credit, card issuing, and account products for fintechs globally.

The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend systems with performance, reliability and scalability as priorities, collaborating with