Senior Backend Engineer - Fintech, Remote & Global Travel

First Circle; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Macbooks

Private health insurance

Training budgets

Travel to SEA

Job summary

First Circle is a fast-growing SME-focused neo-bank expanding across Southeast Asia and soon beyond. We’re hiring senior backend developers to build and evolve production-grade services, APIs, and data pipelines that power credit, payments, and accounts for small businesses.

You’ll take features from concept to production, shaping the approach with product and design, shipping rapidly, and measuring impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production backend systems in Kotlin, Java, or Ruby.
• Strong API design and data modeling for scalable systems.
• Experience in fintech or regulated environments is a plus.
• Hands-on production operations: debugging and incident response.
• Comfortable in fast-moving startups; curious about AI integration.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve backend services and APIs that are fast, reliable, and easy to change.
• Help make architectural decisions and balance speed with durable solutions.
• Keep services running by monitoring, alerting, and quick incident response.
• Review code and mentor other engineers.
• Collaborate across product, design, and business to translate needs into technical solutions.

Skills

Kotlin/Java/Ruby

API design

Relational databases

Distributed systems

Production debugging

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

First Circle is a fast-growing SME-focused neo-bank expanding across Southeast Asia and soon beyond. We’re hiring senior backend developers to build and evolve production-grade services, APIs, and data pipelines that power credit, payments, and accounts for small businesses.

You’ll take features from concept to production, shaping the approach with product and design, shipping rapidly, and measuring impact.