Senior Backend Engineer - Large-Scale Fintech (Go/Java)

Lead; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life

401k Matching

Paid parental leave

Flexible vacation

Job summary

Lead Bank, a banking infrastructure platform, operates offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, with a Kansas City FDIC-insured bank. The Engineering team builds secure, scalable financial systems powering fintechs and money movement at scale.

This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend systems with a priority on performance and reliability, collaborating with product managers and stakeholders to deliver new features that meet business needs and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience shipping successful projects.
• You are passionate about building large scale systems in a cloud native environment (preferably AWS).
• You have a strong command of at least one language (preferably Go and/or Java).
• Demonstrated experience in working on large scale systems, developing and maintaining a high quality code base, and consistently delivering challenging projects on schedule with high quality.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to mentor and guide junior engineers.
• Ability to collaborate/compromise to get to the best, most efficient outcome.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally to align stakeholders on the goals and deliverables.
• You are curious, have humility and are open to learning.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain large scale backend systems with a focus on performance, reliability and scalability.
• Work closely with product managers and key stakeholders to implement new features that address product goals and customer needs.
• Mentor and lead team members to grow capability and deliver high-quality software.

Skills

Go / Java

Cloud native (AWS)

Large scale systems

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Leadership

Tools

Go

Java

Job description

Lead Bank, a banking infrastructure platform, operates offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, with a Kansas City FDIC-insured bank. The Engineering team builds secure, scalable financial systems powering fintechs and money movement at scale.

This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend systems with a priority on performance and reliability, collaborating with product managers and stakeholders to deliver new features that meet business needs and