Senior Software Engineer - Backend

ether.fi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance-based incentives

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Opportunity to work from anywhere for 4 weeks

Exciting company events and team-building

Job summary

ether.fi is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer in New York to own core components of backend systems. This role involves enhancing transaction processing, ensuring availability, and building scalable systems. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of coding experience and a strong problem-solving mindset.

The position offers a competitive salary range of $170K - $200K with performance bonuses, health benefits, and opportunities for global travel. Join a driven team working on innovative neobank solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional coding experience.
• Experience shipping products with a significant user base.
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering and problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Own core areas of backend systems and extend functionality.
• Keep the credit-card processing path highly available & low-latency.
• Work with engineers to ensure code quality.
• Engage with core business metrics.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Problem solving

Professional coding experience

Experience with web3

Job description

Location

New York, Cayman, Denver

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering

Compensation

• US / Cayman: $170K - $200K, Offers Equity, Offers Bonus

We pay based on experience, using internal benchmarking to ensure that all employees are paid competitively and equitably.

Position overview

We’re looking for a senior full backend software engineer to own core components relating to backend architecture, transaction processing and availability. You will form a key part of engineering team focusing on delivering scalable and well designed backend systems. Everything from card transaction processing, low latency APIs, microservice architectures and on-chain data indexing. Anything that a neobank would build is on our roadmap.

What you’ll do

• Own core areas of our backend systems, and extend current functionality to improve throughput and latency
• Keep our credit-card processing path highly available & low-latency
• Work alongside other engineers to ship high quality code and ensure engineering excellence
• Engage with core business metrics such as user adoption, revenue figures and error rates

What we are looking for

• Strong fundamentals in software engineering and problem solving
• You have shipped impressive products with thousands of real users
• 5+ years of professional coding experience
• Drive, willingness to work hard and go the extra mile. We are a highly ambitious, driven team with audacious goals, and we work very hard to make them a reality
• Plus if you are experienced in web3

Perks and benefits

• Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and token allocation grant
• Opportunity to work on multi-billion dollar products as part of a small team
• Health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Global team with opportunity for travel and working out of our 3 offices around the world
• 4 weeks work from anywhere
• Exciting company events and team-building off-sites

Compensation Range: $170K - $200K