Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
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- Co-branded cards alone account for over $300 billion in U.S. annual spend, and most still run on legacy bank rails. Imprint is the modern alternative: flexible, embeddable, and built for how people actually pay today
- Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital, Ribbit, and Khosla Ventures, we’re building a world-class team to redefine how people pay and how brands grow. If you want to move fast, solve hard problems, and own real outcomes, we want to meet you
- The backend is core to this expansion: every transaction, every credit decision, and every rewards calculation runs on the financial infrastructure we build. At the Staff level, you’ll provide both the technical and cultural leverage that helps the team and the systems scale together
- Drive architecture and implementation of critical financial systems: from transaction authorization and ledger accounting, to credit decisioning, to rewards engines and payment processing. You write code, make design decisions, and own outcomes
- Shape net-new products from ideation through delivery: as Imprint expands into new financial products and a deeper rewards platform, you’ll define technical approaches for systems that don’t exist yet while evolving the ones that do
- Define foundational platform direction: set the technical vision for shared services, API infrastructure, and developer tooling that make the entire engineering team faster and more reliable
- Leverage AI across the stack: from prototyping to testing to production code, learning how to leverage AI tools is a core consideration for how we work
- Drive alignment across a wide cross-functional surface: product, design, infrastructure, compliance, solutions engineering, and brand partners. You bring engineering perspective into the room where decisions are made
- Raise the technical and cultural bar: mentor and sponsor engineers across the spectrum of seniority, foster psychological safety, and drive technical rigor in how the team designs, reviews, and ships
- Stack:
- Go, MySQL, DynamoDB, Temporal, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Statsig
- Experience using AI tools (code assistants, MCP servers, agentic workflows) to accelerate development, or genuine enthusiasm to adopt them
- You drive technical alignment across product managers, business stakeholders, and engineers of all levels
- 10+ years of experience building production backend systems, operating in the details and driving strong technical outcomes
- You operate fluidly across staff archetypes depending on context — tech lead, architect, solver — adapting your approach to what the team and problem need
- Experience ensuring data consistency and transactional integrity across distributed systems
- Strong with relational databases: schema design, migrations, and query performance tuning
- You model the culture you want to see: psychological safety, intellectual honesty, and high standards for craft
- You communicate clearly at every level, from pairing on implementation details to presenting technical strategy to leadership
- You’ve architected and shipped systems that handle real money, real users, or real-time decisions, and you’ve made the teams around you better in the process
- Startup experience a plus
- Proficiency in Go (our primary backend language), or a similar language with willingness to ramp quickly
- We don’t expect every candidate to match every bullet. If you’re excited about what we’re building and confident you can contribute, we’d love to