Senior Backend Engineer — Fintech, Microservices & Cloud

Talentstream; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Talentstream is seeking a backend engineer to design and develop scalable fintech backend systems. You will write reliable production-grade code and lead architecture decisions across teams, ensuring high performance and fault tolerance.

You will collaborate with Product, Frontend, and Infrastructure to optimize system health and drive engineering best practices. The role emphasizes independent work in a fast-paced environment with mentoring responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Experience in backend engineering and scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend systems for fintech products.
• Write reliable, high-performance production code.
• Build fault-tolerant and high-throughput systems.
• Collaborate with Product, Frontend, and Infrastructure teams.
• Monitor system health and optimize backend performance.
• Drive architecture and engineering best practices.
• Mentor engineers and improve technical standards.
• Lead system design and platform development.

Skills

Backend engineering

System design

Cloud-native architecture

REST APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

Independent work

Production-grade code

Java

Spring Boot

Go

Python

Job description

Talentstream is seeking a backend engineer to design and develop scalable fintech backend systems. You will write reliable production-grade code and lead architecture decisions across teams, ensuring high performance and fault tolerance.

You will collaborate with Product, Frontend, and Infrastructure to optimize system health and drive engineering best practices. The role emphasizes independent work in a fast-paced environment with mentoring responsibilities.