Senior Backend Software Engineer (NYC)

Común; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and generous equity

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Gym Pass subscription

Daily office lunch in NYC Office

Paid parental leave

Flexible PTO

Remote-friendly when traveling

Company-wide offsites

401(k) for US employees

Visa sponsorship if applicable

Job summary

A financial technology company in New York is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to enhance banking features and maintain core offerings. Ideal candidates will have 4+ years in software engineering and 2+ years using Python and Postgres. This role includes collaboration across teams and establishing development processes. Competitive salary and benefits are offered, including equity and flexible PTO.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of experience using Python and Postgres.
• Bonus: Experience with GraphQL, DevOps (Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes), and pub/sub models (Kafka).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, design, and front end functions.
• Establish new processes and tools to expedite development.
• Maintain a stable testing and observability stack.
• Plan engineering execution across different time horizons.

Skills

Python

Postgres

GraphQL

DevOps

Kafka

Job description

Senior Backend Software Engineer (NYC or CDMX)

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Overview

As a backend engineer, you’ll be responsible for extending our systems to support additional banking features, increases in usage volume, and the needs of our non-technical company functions. You’ll maintain our core offering — a deposit account and debit card powered through our Banking as a Service partner — while designing our architecture to bundle additional financial services into a personalized product experience. We’ve adopted a lightweight microservice infrastructure that allows us to move quickly, but that can flex on robustness to ensure scalability as our engineering team grows.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with our product, design, and front end functions to build new financial offerings that advance the company mission.
• Work with back end peers to establish new processes, software patterns, and tools that expedite our development process.
• Maintain a testing and observability stack that keeps our system stable and proactively alerts us of internal or third party users.
• Work with leadership to plan our engineering execution across different time horizons.

You are

• Opinionated on software engineering best practices, at a code and developer productivity level.
• Product-minded and passionate about delivering delightful experiences to customers.
• Experienced building backend systems that grow in complexity over time.
• A critical thinker capable of making tradeoffs in a fast paced environment.
• A great communicator and collaborator, capable of creating and running cross-functional processes.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering
• 2+ years of experience using Python and Postgres
• Bonus: Experience with GraphQL, DevOps (Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes), and pub/sub models (Kafka)

We value domain experts that are obsessed with their craft and push the quality bar beyond reach. We also like generalists that are self-driven and entrepreneurial, who can make product decisions and own operational processes.

Team

We are a team of 40 based out of New York, coming from industry-leading companies like Brex, Nubank, Cruise, and Verkada. Over half of us are immigrants, and have experienced the problems we’re solving first hand. We value customer focus, high ambition, principled decision-making, and deep trust.

Full Time Employee Benefits

• Competitive salary and generous equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Gym Pass subscription
• Daily office lunch in NYC Office
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible PTO
• Remote-friendly when traveling
• Company-wide offsites
• 401(k) for US employees
• Visit to our NYC Office for remote team members
• Visa sponsorship if applicable

Común is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Note: This description reflects the current role and duties of the position; it is not a contract of employment and is subject to change at the discretion of Común.