Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Sardine; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous compensation and equity

Remote-first culture

Flexible paid time off

Health insurance (US/Canada)

4% 401k/RRSP match

MacBook Pro provided

Home office setup stipend

Monthly meal stipend

Monthly social stipend

Annual health stipend

Annual learning stipend

Job summary

Sardine, the leading agentic risk platform, seeks a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain APIs and services across our engineering teams. You will develop new features at scale, refine tooling, and contribute to product and technical roadmaps.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in web backend, strong Golang skills, data engineering experience, and fintech/fraud domain knowledge.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Golang proficiency is a strong advantage.
• Experience in data engineering is desirable.
• Track record delivering production services and systems.
• Customer-centric with empathy for users.
• Domain knowledge in fintech or fraud prevention preferred.
• Proficient in English for communication and reports.

Responsibilities

• Design, create, and maintain robust backend services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to architect new services.
• Develop features and capabilities delivering value to customers.
• Coordinate with engineering and product teams for delivery.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for users and internal teams.
• Help shape engineering culture and maintain high standards.

Skills

Backend development

Customer-centric

English proficiency

Stakeholder collaboration

APIs

Data pipelines

Leadership

Tools

Golang

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

GCP Dataflow

Python

Terraform

Job description

Who we are:

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine’s platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.

Our culture:

• We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation.
• We value performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn’t have to miss your family dinner, your kid’s school play, friends get-together, or doctor’s appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.
• We’re a remote-first team spread across time zones, so no office to report to - work from wherever helps you do your best work. Just a couple of things to keep in mind: pay is based on where you’re located, and you’ll need to keep a home base in the country you’re hired in. So while we love the “coffee shop today, mountains tomorrow” life, this isn’t a passport-optional, work-from-anywhere-on-Earth kind of remote - think flexible within your country, not borderless.

Location:

Remote - Canada

About the Role:

As a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, constructing, and maintaining APIs, services, and systems across our engineering team. This multifaceted position involves developing new features on a large scale, refining internal tooling and processes, contributing to product and technical roadmaps, and assuming diverse responsibilities within the organization. The ideal candidate for the backend role will have a proven track record in building highly available APIs, with additional proficiency in data pipelines and the relevant domain.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design, create, and maintain robust, efficient, and reliable backend services to meet our platform’s evolving needs.
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to architect and implement new services from inception to delivery.
• Contribute to developing new features and capabilities that deliver substantial value to our customers.
• Work with various engineering and product teams to synchronize efforts and deliver cutting-edge solutions.
• Craft and maintain user-facing technical documentation, enhancing user understanding and facilitating seamless adoption of our services.
• Play a pivotal role in shaping our company’s engineering culture, ensuring the maintenance of high engineering standards across the organization.

What you’ll need:

• 7+ years of proven experience as a Software Engineer specializing in web backend development.
• Proficiency in Golang is a significant advantage.
• Additional experience in data engineering is highly desirable.
• A track record of successfully delivering high-quality production services and systems.
• Customer-centric approach with a strong emphasis on empathy towards users.
• Relevant industry experience, particularly in banking or fintech, and domain knowledge in fraud prevention or compliance.
• Proficient in English - from casual chats to formal reports.

Technologies we use:

• TypeScript (React + node)
• Golang
• Ruby
• Bigtable
• Postgres / PostgreSQL
• GCP dataflow (apache beam)
• BigQuery
• Python
• Java
• Terraform

Benefits we offer:

• Generous compensation in cash and equity
• Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
• Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
• Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
• Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific
• 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific
• MacBook Pro delivered to your door
• One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
• Monthly meal stipend
• Monthly social meet-up stipend
• Annual health and wellness stipend
• Annual Learning stipend

Join a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world. If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you.

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