Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Tilt Finance

1d•Remote

About The Position

Join the Tilt team. At Tilt, we see a side of people that traditional lenders miss. Our mobile-first products and machine learning-powered credit models look beyond credit scores, using over 250 real-time financial signals to recognize real potential. With millions of customers worldwide, we're not just changing how people access financial products — we're creating a new credit system that backs the working, whatever they're working toward. The Opportunity: Staff Backend Engineer, Cards As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our solutions. You will identify strategic technical needs, lead large-scale and complex product initiatives, and optimize our engineering processes. You will also take ownership of technological initiatives, from management and execution to solution design and progress reporting. In addition, you will serve as a lead interviewer, mentor other engineers, and lead incident responses. Your role will also involve designing, building, and deploying server application code, implementing secure coding standards, and meeting sprint goals. You will monitor the performance of our server application, participate in the server ops on-call schedule, and work towards minimizing defects and improving reliability. Travel for company offsites is expected at a minimum 2 times a year.

Requirements

7+ years developing web APIs within .NET (C#)
Experience building resilient financial systems with state machine logic and complex lifecycles
Ability to balance immediate business needs with long-term architectural considerations
Strong understanding of distributed systems, queue-based architectures, and data-intensive applications
Experience scaling consumer-facing products with significant transaction volumes
Ability to collaborate effectively with product, risk, and operational teams
Comfort making decisions with incomplete information and adapting as new data emerges
Skill in mentoring and elevating the capabilities of other engineers
Able to effectively leverage AI-powered development tools (e.g., Cursor, Augment, Factory) to enhance productivity, code quality, and collaboration.

Responsibilities

Identify opportunities to foster optimal product direction, collaborate closely with business stakeholders to streamline and simplify designs, and proactively identify areas of risk and tradeoffs that can be enhanced.
Ownership of technical initiatives, being accountable for the initiative's outcome, managing and executing the project, designing the solution and defining its requirements, reporting on the initiative's progress, and coordinating resources.
Perform as a lead technical interviewer
Lead technical reviewer of Tilt Engineering blog posts
Mentor Engineers up to and including Senior levels
Lead SEV1 and lower incident response through to resolution
Lead engineering of large scale and complex product initiatives
Culture leader across the engineering organization, delivery team and platform team
Designing, building, and deploying server application code
Implementing secure coding standards
Meeting sprint goals
Monitor the performance of our server application
Participate in the server ops on-call schedule
Work towards minimizing defects and improving reliability