Senior Backend Engineer, Product Expansion – Remote

Alternative Payments; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity opportunities

Unlimited PTO

Learning and development stipend

Job summary

Alternative Payments is building the financial operating system for SMBs, expanding into accounts payable and analytics. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll architect and develop core backend services, design event-driven data pipelines, and ensure reliability for transactions.

You'll work with Product Expansion, focusing on Accounts Payable and Analytics, using Go and Postgres, and collaborating with global teams to deliver features rapidly and securely.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years in professional software development, with senior-level responsibilities.
• Strong background in building scalable backend services for payments or financial platforms.
• Experience with distributed systems and event-driven data pipelines.
• Proficient in Go (or similar language) and SQL; familiar with code reviews and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services for data processing and business logic.
• Design and implement event-driven pipelines using Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.
• Write maintainable Go and SQL code following coding standards and reviews.
• Drive quality with unit/integration/end-to-end tests and monitoring/alerts.
• Collaborate with Product and Ops to deliver features quickly and reliably.

Skills

Go backend

SQL

Event-driven

Testing

CI/CD

Git workflows

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Postgres

Job description

Alternative Payments is building the financial operating system for SMBs, expanding into accounts payable and analytics. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll architect and develop core backend services, design event-driven data pipelines, and ensure reliability for transactions.

You'll work with Product Expansion, focusing on Accounts Payable and Analytics, using Go and Postgres, and collaborating with global teams to deliver features rapidly and securely.