Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Know Your Customer)
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Summary
Senior Backend Engineer at Sardine designs, builds, and maintains APIs and backend services for the company's Know Your Customer platform, collaborating with product and engineering teams and shaping engineering culture. The role requires 7+ years of web backend experience and favors Go, data pipelines, and fintech/compliance domain knowledge.
- As a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, constructing, and maintaining APIs, services, and systems across our engineering team
- This multifaceted position involves developing new features on a large scale, refining internal tooling and processes, contributing to product and technical roadmaps, and assuming diverse responsibilities within the organization
- Design, create, and maintain robust, efficient, and reliable backend services to meet our platform’s evolving needs
- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to architect and implement new services from inception to delivery
- Contribute to developing new features and capabilities that deliver substantial value to our customers
- Work with various engineering and product teams to synchronize efforts and deliver cutting-edge solutions
- Craft and maintain user-facing technical documentation, enhancing user understanding and facilitating seamless adoption of our services
- Play a pivotal role in shaping our company’s engineering culture, ensuring the maintenance of high engineering standards across the organization
Benefits
- Unlimited access to an expert financial advisory
- Generous equity compensation
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door
- 100% of health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and 50% for dependents
- Unlimited paid time off and minimum 2 weeks/year of mandatory vacation
- Monthly meal stipend
- 4% matching in 401k
- Company-wide offsites, the last one was at Miami
- Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
- Annual fitness allowance
- One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, monitors, etc
- The ideal candidate for the backend role will have a proven track record in building highly available APIs, with additional proficiency in data pipelines and the relevant domain
- Proficiency in Golang is a significant advantage
- Additional experience in data engineering is highly desirable
- 7+ years of proven experience as a Software Engineer specializing in web backend development
- A track record of successfully delivering high-quality production services and systems
- Proficient in English - from casual chats to formal reports
- Customer-centric approach with a strong emphasis on empathy towards users
- Relevant industry experience, particularly in banking or fintech, and domain knowledge in fraud prevention or compliance