Backend Engineer

Frec Markets • San Francisco, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

We created Frec to expand the possibilities for everyone and their money. We’re a tight team of builders, creators, and designers who want to be smarter with our money for our futures and our families. As a software engineer at Frec, you’ll create products that enable us to level the financial playing field and empower people to manage their own money. Some values we identify with are accountability, humility, compassion, and teamwork. If this resonates with you, join us at this pivotal time to help shape our structures, systems, and Frec’s future. Frec highly values product ideas and feedback from all employees, in a true bottoms-up fashion. This means as an engineer, you will work with a growing team comprised of product managers, designers, and brokerage operations professionals to ideate, prioritize, prototype, develop, test, and iterate on software that will educate and equip people with newer and smarter ways to build wealth. We’re looking for engineers who have an unrelenting sense of urgency and capability to move fast, have a strong sense of ownership, ability to deal with ambiguity and are enthusiastic about tackling new challenges to help us build a world-class financial platform.

Requirements

• TypeScript/Node
• Python
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• AWS
• GraphQL

Responsibilities

• Own large pieces of the infrastructure – all aspects of it ranging from proposing changes to existing services, building new ones, improving how we deploy, and ensuring the systems we build are stable, durable, and can scale smoothly as we grow.
• Design services that not only work well in development but remain healthy, observable, and easy to operate in production.
• Tackle complex backend challenges around data consistency, transactional integrity, and high availability.
• Design APIs and services that are fault-tolerant, build mechanisms for secure and reliable financial data handling, and ensure the platform scales gracefully under increasing load.
• Help shape how we build, deploy, and monitor our services.
• Ensure every line of code contributes to a platform that’s resilient in the face of failures and straightforward to operate.
• Partner closely with other backend engineers, as well as product, design, and operations teams, to ensure we build a platform that is technically strong, operationally sound, and enables high-quality product experiences.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity grants
• Fully paid health, vision and dental insurances
• 401k
• Monthly allowance to help with maintaining a healthy body and mind (fitness & mental health components)
• Flexible (Unlimited) paid time off
• Visa sponsorship & immigration support
• Daily in-office lunch and dinner

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed