Product Engineer, Backend

What will you do?
Here are some projects you might work on in your first six months:

Help us build our Bill Switch product that helps our customers drive account primacy through migrating their users’ subscription spend to their new accounts
Contribute to a new API version that improves our contracts and formalizes recent product direction in our platform’s code
Help us firm up and improve our tax product for next tax season
Clean up old code that no longer serves our current product direction and leave the codebase better than you found it
Build a new customer dashboard API that aligns with our stack and opens up future expansion possibilities in customer dashboard functionality
Build new integrations with banking platform partners and help us improve existing implementations to make them more effective

In general, your responsibilities in this role would include:

Deeply understand our customer needs and design systems to solve them
Build, scale, and evolve the data models, services, and systems that power our APIs
Design and ship impactful new functionality in our products, especially focused on our internal and customer-facing back-end APIs
Maintain and improve our Python-based microservice stack
Create and improve tooling, processes, and engineering standards across the team
Mentor engineers and help the team grow

What qualifications are we looking for?
5+ years of experience building and maintaining back-end or full-stack applications, specifically with data modeling, application logic, and API design
Prior experience working at an early-stage startup or small tech company
Deep expertise with modern back-end languages/frameworks (e.g. FastAPI, Django, Rails, Gin)
Working experience with modern frontend web frameworks (React, Vue, etc.)
Played key implementation roles in projects with multiple teams and engineers
Excited by working closely with customers
Responsibly uses AI on top of fundamental skills, doesn’t replace them
Maintains a high bar for technical quality and continues to level up