Sr. Software Engineer

Synctera

2d•Remote

About The Position

At Synctera, we’re powering the future of FinTech. We help companies create new revenue streams and enhance their value proposition with FinTech apps and embedded banking products. With APIs, compliance support, and bank partners in one end-to-end Banking as a Service platform, Synctera is the fastest and easiest way to build, launch, and scale bank accounts, debit cards, charge cards, lending, and more. We help banks increase deposits and non-interest income by expanding their footprint through FinTech and embedded finance partnerships. The Synctera Platform enables banks to manage their program through a fully compliant, scalable solution. We are looking for interesting, curious, wickedly smart people who are ready to jump in and run with our fast-growing team. If you want to have fun at work, collaborate with some of the sharpest people in the industry, grow the FinTech and Banking as a Service ecosystem, and love to win, read on! At Synctera, engineers play a hands-on role in building and evolving our core platform. With smaller teams and fewer layers, engineers have real ownership over their work, move quickly from idea to execution, and contribute directly to technical decisions that matter. You’ll work on internal systems that must be reliable, secure, and scalable, while helping shape how the platform continues to grow and mature. It’s an environment designed for engineers who enjoy meaningful impact, autonomy, and solving complex problems in a regulated, real-world context. Our platform is built in Go (for backend services) and React with Typescript (for the Synctera Console, our frontend). We’re built on top of Google Cloud Platform and typically use Postgres (Cloud SQL, AlloyDB), Redis (Cloud Memorystore), and Pub/Sub as our core application stack, with OpenAPI specifications being used to both document our API and be the foundation for inter-service communication. Our infrastructure is predominantly a mixture of Kubernetes (Google Kubernetes Engine) and Cloud Run (Google’s serverless compute platform), with Terraform orchestrating infrastructure, and tools like Argo facilitating deployments.

Requirements

6+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
Strong Go experience: you’ve built and operated production systems in Go
Comfort working with a TypeScript/React frontend
Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases
Experience with at least one major cloud provider, preferably Google Cloud
Experience designing and using RESTful APIs
Proven experience shipping customer-facing AI features in production (prompt design, evaluation, latency, cost, failure modes, human-in-the-loop)
Experience with event-driven or data-intensive systems (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka, message queues, stream processing)
A track record of architecting systems where data integrity, auditability, and reproducibility matter, ideally in a regulated or high-stakes domain
Comfort with both relational (Postgres) and analytical (BigQuery, ClickHouse, Snowflake) data stores
A pragmatic approach to complexity: you start with simple solutions and add sophistication only when needed

Nice To Haves

Experience in fintech, banking, or financial services, especially compliance, risk, payments, or BaaS, and an understanding of why correctness and audit trails are non-negotiable
Experience with rule engines, DSLs, or configuration-driven product surfaces where customers can compose behavior without writing code
Familiarity with dbt, Ent, Connect RPC, Protocol Buffers, or Pulumi-managed GKE deployments
Experience with Python / GitLab APIs / Google Cloud APIs
Experience on early-stage, fast-moving engineering teams
Familiarity with payment rails and financial systems
Preference for being based in, or spending time in, the San Francisco Bay Area for in-person collaboration

Responsibilities

Build and maintain scalable, reliable backend services in Go (Golang)
Ship new features quickly by extending and improving our existing codebase
Build customer-facing AI features that apply LLMs and ML models to real compliance problems
Design event-driven, data-intensive systems that handle high-volume bank data with correctness and clear audit trails
Favor simple, elegant solutions over unnecessary complexity
Optimize for a great user experience across usability, accessibility, and performance
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve engineering problems and iterate based on feedback
Partner with Product and Engineering to understand complex financial services challenges and design solutions
Improve our engineering processes and best practices
Mentor other engineers and foster knowledge-sharing

Benefits

100% employer paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for US and Canadian employees and dependents
Employer contribution to HSA for US employees
Annual HCSA and generous extended health care coverage for Canadian employees and dependents
401(k) for US employees and RRSP for Canadian employees
Mental health resources available for all employees
Unlimited paid time off
Generous paid new parent leave program
Home office setup stipend
Stock options program for all employees
Growth potential and opportunity to have a significant impact at an early stage of our company's journey
Working alongside a skilled and passionate team