Senior Backend Engineer (Kotlin) – Remote-First, FinTech

Step; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401k plan

Flexible vacation

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Tech package

Job summary

Step is a remote-first company focused on building banking for the next generation. We are part of Beast Industries and seek a Senior Backend Software Engineer to own features from inception to production, improve Kotlin services, and ship reliable distributed systems.

You will join a small, cross-functional team and contribute to weekly product impact while prioritizing maintainable code and robust testing in a fast-growing environment with stock options and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• Passion for software quality.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable and reliable distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own features from inception to production.
• Improve existing Kotlin services and build new ones.
• Prioritize maintainable code and test rigorously.
• Work in a small cross-functional team.
• See your contributions make a weekly impact on an evolving product.

Skills

Backend development

CS fundamentals

Software quality

Distributed systems

Tools

Kotlin

gRPC

Protocol Buffers

Dagger

Postgres

JOOQ

BigQuery

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Step is a remote-first company focused on building banking for the next generation. We are part of Beast Industries and seek a Senior Backend Software Engineer to own features from inception to production, improve Kotlin services, and ship reliable distributed systems.

You will join a small, cross-functional team and contribute to weekly product impact while prioritizing maintainable code and robust testing in a fast-growing environment with stock options and comprehensive benefits.