Senior Backend Product Engineer – AI-Driven Finance

Axleaccess; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Equity

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Lunch stipend

Commute stipend

Job summary

Axle is building the intelligent infrastructure for how capital moves on Wall Street. We are seeking a Product Engineer in our New York City Flatiron office to write code, own features from design through production, and ship core systems that banks rely on daily.

In this hands-on IC role you will focus on building services, APIs and data models, while optimizing performance as data volumes grow. Expect an in-office, five days a week schedule with a competitive package including equity.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building production backend systems with Java/Spring Boot or a comparable framework.
• Strong understanding of backend architecture, API design, asynchronous processing, and production reliability.
• Deep PostgreSQL knowledge—schema design, indexing, query optimization, transactions, migrations.

Responsibilities

• Ship features end to end from design to production.
• Build core product services, APIs, data models and workflows.
• Keep systems fast by identifying bottlenecks and improving architecture as data grows.

Skills

Java/Spring Boot

Backend architecture

APIs

PostgreSQL

AWS

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Axle is building the intelligent infrastructure for how capital moves on Wall Street. We are seeking a Product Engineer in our New York City Flatiron office to write code, own features from design through production, and ship core systems that banks rely on daily.

In this hands-on IC role you will focus on building services, APIs and data models, while optimizing performance as data volumes grow. Expect an in-office, five days a week schedule with a competitive package including equity.