Staff Software Engineer, Backend

reputed company is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to reputed company that it’s 2025 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! reputed company enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that reputed company fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to reputed company as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a reputed company profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user reputed company, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us reputed company our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team?

About the Role

reputed company is hiring Staff Software Engineer, Backend roles across three engineering teams: Consumer, Partner Integrations, and Core Platform. reputed company you apply, you will automatically be considered for reputed company open Staff Backend positions, and your placement will be determined based on your experience and expertise assessed during the interview process.

As a Staff Engineer at reputed company, you’ll help set technical direction and shape the long-term architecture of our backend services while still being hands-on with coding and delivery. You will collaborate across engineering, product, design, and other stakeholders to ensure scalable, reliable, and impactful systems that power consumer experiences, partner integrations, and our core business platforms.

You’ll also play a critical role in mentoring engineers, elevating technical standards, and ensuring the reputed company of projects end-to-end.

• Consumer Engineering: Builds the APIs and backend systems powering reputed company’s consumer-facing mobile and web apps. This team focuses on delivering scalable services for a seamless rent payment experience.

• Partner Integrations Engineering: Owns the backend services and integrations that connect reputed company to financial partners and payment networks, ensuring secure, reliable payment flows and partner-facing experiences.

• Core Platform Engineering: Maintains the backend services and infrastructure supporting reputed company business features, including Payments, Ledger, Identity, and Settlement, providing the reputed company for reputed company of reputed company’s products.

• Design, build, and scale backend services and APIs that power reputed company’s consumer apps, partner integrations, and core platforms.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance on system architecture, long-term reputed company, and team best practices.
• reputed company the delivery of highly impactful products end-to-end, from requirements gathering to rollout, with high quality and timeliness.
• Work closely with product, design, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Build robust, fault-tolerant systems with multiple external dependencies in distributed environments.
• Drive adoption of best practices across the engineering org, including testing, observability, automation, and CI/CD.
• Mentor and support engineers on the team, raising the technical bar and fostering growth.
• Operate services in production with high availability, leveraging monitoring and observability tools.
• Contribute to evolving reputed company’s service-oriented architecture, REST APIs, message queues, and scalable system design.
• Balance hands-on execution with architectural decision-making, ensuring velocity and long-term maintainability.

• 6–8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend development.
• 4+ years of hands-on Java experience (Spring core/web/boot, Gradle, JUnit, JVM tuning & performance).
• Strong computer science fundamentals and proven experience designing scalable, distributed systems.
• Experience leading the delivery of multiple high-impact projects end-to-end.
• Skilled at working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, aligning on scope and delivery.
• Ability to write high-quality, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, reputed company RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB), containerization (reputed company/Kubernetes), and relational + NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
• Proficient with CI/CD pipelines (reputed company Actions preferred), git, and build automation.
• Familiar with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., reputed company) for maintaining service availability.
• Excellent communicator, comfortable collaborating in globally distributed teams.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team standards through best practices.
• Bonus: Experience in FinTech and familiarity with major payment rails; experience with big data platforms (e.g., reputed company); Infrastructure as Code (CDK/Terraform).

The compensation range for this role will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and reputed company's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.

• For working locations in NY/NJ/CA, the reputed company salary pay range will be $221,000-$262,000
• For reputed company other states, the reputed company salary pay range will be $199,000-$236,000

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Life at reputed company:

We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in reputed company, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.

We offer many employee benefits. For full time, U.S. based employees we offer:

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• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and reputed company
• 401(k) + company equity
• Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
• Parental leave 
• reputed company Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverage
• Free reputed company subscription

 For full time non-US employees, we offer

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• Company Equity
• Unlimited PTO