Sr. Software Engineer

Synctera

6d • $160,000 - $245,000 • 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 do more than maintain existing systems. They help design and build new platform capabilities that directly shape how our products work and how the company scales. Our teams are small, which means senior engineers have real ownership: defining approaches, making technical tradeoffs, shipping production code, and improving systems over time. You can move quickly from idea to production, and your decisions have visible impact on both the product and the platform. This role is a fit for someone who wants to build in a real-world, high-stakes environment: backend systems that need to be reliable, secure, scalable, and auditable because they support financial compliance and banking operations.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
• Proven experience building and operating production backend systems in Go
• Solid hands-on experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database in production
• Experience designing or maintaining event-driven or data-intensive systems
• Experience working on systems where correctness, auditability, and reproducibility matter
• Experience shipping at least one customer-facing AI feature to production, or directly owning a production AI workflow with real users and measurable outcomes
• Comfort working on a small team with broad ownership and high expectations for technical judgment

Nice To Haves

• Experience in fintech, banking, compliance, risk, payments, or BaaS.
• Experience with analytical data stores such as BigQuery, ClickHouse, or Snowflake.
• Familiarity with dbt, Ent, Connect RPC, Protocol Buffers, Pulumi-managed GKE deployments, GitLab APIs, or Google Cloud APIs.
• Experience on a fast-moving early-stage engineering team.
• Preference for being based in, or open to spending regular time in, the San Francisco Bay Area for in-person collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Build, ship, and operate backend services in Go for production use cases with real reliability and correctness requirements.
• Design systems that process high-volume, event-driven data with clear audit trails and reproducible behavior.
• Extend and improve existing platform capabilities without adding unnecessary complexity.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to turn ambiguous financial-services problems into concrete technical solutions.
• Build customer-facing AI features that apply LLMs and ML models to real compliance problems, with attention to evaluation, latency, cost, and failure handling in production.
• Help raise engineering quality through strong technical judgment, mentoring, and pragmatic decision-making.

What This Job Offers

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