Senior Backend Engineer - Scale Fintech RESTful Systems

altruist; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity + Stock options

Premium healthcare, dental & vision

401k plan

Job summary

Altruist is seeking a high-performing Backend Engineer to join our Platform team in a hybrid role in California. You will design, build, and scale RESTful services using Java, Spring Boot, and Postgres, shaping distributed microservices in an AWS/Kubernetes environment.

You will mentor teammates, champion secure coding practices, and contribute to shared infrastructure across product teams, delivering robust, scalable backend systems with performance and reliability at the core.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building scalable backend services in B2B fintech, financial services, or SaaS.
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Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale RESTful backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and Postgres.
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Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

AWS

Kafka

Temporal

OpenTelemetry

GitLab CI/CD

Education

B.A./B.S. in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Debezium

Temporal

OpenTelemetry

AWS

Snowflake

Job description

Altruist is seeking a high-performing Backend Engineer to join our Platform team in a hybrid role in California. You will design, build, and scale RESTful services using Java, Spring Boot, and Postgres, shaping distributed microservices in an AWS/Kubernetes environment.

You will mentor teammates, champion secure coding practices, and contribute to shared infrastructure across product teams, delivering robust, scalable backend systems with performance and reliability at the core.