Senior Backend Engineer
About The Position
Pomelo is on a mission to improve the lives of immigrants and their loved ones abroad by extending the U.S. credit system internationally. We are proud to be the first fintech company to combine international money transfer and credit, making money transfers refreshingly free, fast, and secure. As an early-stage start-up, we are building a product that rethinks what money transfer can do for people, existing at the intersection of family, personal finance, consumer credit, and global remittances. We’re a team of ~30 and are growing our San Francisco headquarters. Our investors include Keith Rabois of Founders Fund (CEO at Opendoor, former COO of Square), Kevin Hartz (Co-founder/CEO of Xoom), The Chainsmokers, The Weeknd, and more. The Role As a senior engineer, you’ll be a technical expert working on and solving various backend challenges. This role requires both architecture and coding expertise, and will act as a technical mentor for other team members. Our Backend Team has a range of projects they work on, and is responsible for solving core platform problems. This involves areas including money, transactions, fraud, and risk. We’re looking for someone with a deep understanding of backend engineering with a passion for both quality (craft, reliability, etc.) and velocity (business impact, rapid iteration, scrappiness/pragmatism, etc.). The ideal candidate will also be able to operate both at a high level (strategy) and get into the details (hands-on coding, coding reviews, etc.).
Requirements
- Typically 5+ years of backend engineering experience working with a complex code base
- Strong programming skills (Java preferred)
- Startup experience with a demonstrated ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft
- A track record of shipping high-quality products and leading projects at scale
- An ability to turn business and product ideas into engineering solutions
Nice To Haves
- Our current tech stack includes: Backend: Java 17, AWS, Python, Lambda Frontend: React, React Native, Typescript
Responsibilities
- Design and implement technical solutions for various backend engineering projects
- Collaborate on our technical vision and help drive the implementation of complex projects
- Collaborate on ways to continuously improve our engineering processes, tools, and systems to allow us to scale the code base, drive productivity, and develop the team
- Drive effective collaboration between backend engineering and other engineering teams, product, and cross-functional colleague
- Connect overall needs of the business with short and long-term technical requirements
Benefits
- equity
- base salary
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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