Backend Engineer

Spade•New York, NY

2d•$160,000 - $185,000•Remote

About The Position

Financial institutions process billions of transactions every day across cards, ACH, wires, and third party aggregators. But most of that data is difficult to use. Descriptions are inconsistent, merchant names don’t match, and categories vary by payment type. Spade’s API takes these raw, messy transactions, and in <50 ms, returns clean, structured records linked to verified businesses in our proprietary database. Building on that foundation, our agent layer leverages this enriched data to automate insights and decision-making. Customers including Stripe, FIS, Bilt, Corpay, and Mercury use Spade to authorize more transactions, personalize experiences, power rewards programs, and more. We lead the market in merchant coverage, speed of enrichment, and data accuracy, enriching hundreds of billions of dollars in transaction volume every month. Spade is a fast growing, Series A company backed by industry experts and top tier investors (including a16z, Flourish Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures). We’re a lean and execution-oriented hybrid team, passionate about building exceptional products for our growing customer base. We care deeply about diversity of background, experience, and opinion. We value empathy, curiosity, and passion, and strive to create an environment where individuals have autonomy and the ability to take ownership over their work.

Requirements

3-5 years of experience building and scaling backend Python-based systems in fast-paced environments
Proven capability with developing REST APIs and writing performant SQL
Experience building using AWS infrastructure
Experience building systems from scratch, making trade-offs, and executing autonomously in early-stage environments
A customer-focused mindset, strong problem solving skills, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while delivering value to customers
A collaborative mindset, the ability to be mentored, and a focus on your own growth trajectory

Nice To Haves

Proficiency in Django
Familiarity with data science and analytics tools such as Pyspark, Databricks and Delta Lake, and Hex
Experience with cloud infrastructure and tools like AWS CDK
Experience with transaction, merchant, and/or location data
Experience and/or interest in fintech and/or data products

Responsibilities

Collaborate on our technical vision to build a product customers love
Develop and maintain low-latency, massively-scalable developer facing APIs and a robust data platform supporting our data science team
Design and implement systems that support the growth of the product and the company
Debug production issues across all levels of the stack
Bring a strong collaborative approach to deliver value to customers and internal stakeholders at Spade