Senior Backend Engineer – FinTech Payments (Go, AI)

Imprint; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Flexible PTO

Healthcare incl. dependents

One Medical access

Parental leave 20+8 weeks

Top tech access

Company hardware

Job summary

Imprint is seeking a senior backend engineer in New York to build and scale financial systems powering modern credit and rewards experiences. You will own services end-to-end, design robust APIs, and collaborate with product, design, and infra teams.

We value Go expertise, distributed systems discipline, and hands-on AWS, CI/CD, and AI tooling to speed development. You’ll join a fast-growing company redefining how brands pay and earn loyalty.

Qualifications

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• 3+ years of experience building production backend systems.
• Experience with real-money / real-time decisions is a plus.
• Proficiency in Go or similar language with willingness to ramp quickly.
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate development.
• Experience ensuring data consistency across distributed systems.
• Strong with relational databases: schema design, migrations, and query performance tuning.
• Comfortable designing API contracts for internal and external use.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling.
• Participated in on-call rotations and incident response.
• You communicate clearly and collaborate across product, design, and engineering teams.
• You thrive in ambiguous environments and make pragmatic tradeoffs to keep shipping.

Responsibilities

• Own critical financial systems end-to-end, from auth to rewards.
• Build new products and improve existing ones as Imprint expands.
• Contribute to foundational platform work: APIs and tooling.
• Leverage AI across the stack from prototyping to production.
• Collaborate with product, design, infra, compliance, and brand partners.
• Move fast with real responsibility in a growing company.

Skills

Backend systems

Go

AI tools

Data consistency

Relational databases

API design

AWS

CI/CD

On-call

Communication

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

MySQL

DynamoDB

Temporal

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Statsig

Job description

Imprint is seeking a senior backend engineer in New York to build and scale financial systems powering modern credit and rewards experiences. You will own services end-to-end, design robust APIs, and collaborate with product, design, and infra teams.

We value Go expertise, distributed systems discipline, and hands-on AWS, CI/CD, and AI tooling to speed development. You’ll join a fast-growing company redefining how brands pay and earn loyalty.