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Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Location
California + 1 moreAll locations: California, New York
Posted
124 days ago
Salary
$199K - $262K / year
Job Description
Job Requirements
- 6–8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on backend development.
- 4+ years of hands-on Java experience (Spring core/web/boot, Gradle, JUnit, JVM tuning & performance).
- Strong computer science fundamentals and proven experience designing scalable, distributed systems.
- Experience leading the delivery of multiple high-impact projects end-to-end.
- Skilled at working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, aligning on scope and delivery.
- Ability to write high-quality, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
- Hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and relational + NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
- Proficient with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred), git, and build automation.
- Familiar with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog) for maintaining service availability.
- Excellent communicator, comfortable collaborating in globally distributed teams.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team standards through best practices.
- Bonus: Experience in FinTech and familiarity with major payment rails; experience with big data platforms (e.g., Snowflake); Infrastructure as Code (CDK/Terraform).
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
- 401(k) + company equity
- Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Flex Cares Program
- Free Flex subscription
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