Responsibilities

• Build the next generation of our B2B Commerce platform, build APIs and data models that help us build innovative and embeddable experiences.
• Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services - ranging from Underwriting, Servicing, Capital Marketplace, and Closing platform. Build and evolve complex data models used by our various services.
• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products with a strong customer focus.
• Write high-quality code and contribute with peers on code reviews, technical design, and problem-solving.
• Join on-call rotation, driving continuous improvements on system availability, scalability, performance, and efficiency. Manage deployments and monitor runtime metrics to identify code & environment issues.
• Proactively advocate for and apply best practices regarding availability, scalability, operational excellence, observability, and cost management.
• Provide technical leadership, influence fellow engineers, and role model solid engineering practices to a distributed team of engineers. 
• Take an active role in mentoring engineers in the team, and partner with your manager to improve the processes that support team growth and efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science and Engineering.
• 8+ years of experience working on backend systems, with at least 5+ years of technical leadership roles leading project teams, setting technical direction and experience mentoring senior engineers.
• Prior experience in architecting, building, launching and maintaining large and complex systems.
• Advanced knowledge in one of the following industry-standard languages: Ruby on Rails, Python, Java or Go. Experience with NoSQL solutions, SQL (e.g. PostgreSQL) and Caching technologies (e.g. Redis / Memcache).
• Ability to bring best practices from across the world of software engineering and adapt them to the backend environment.
• You understand the operational aspects of your work and participate in incident investigation and resolution.
• Experience providing high-quality reviews on teammates’ code and designs, providing constructive feedback to meet a high bar of quality, and helping others grow.
• Well-developed interpersonal, written, and verbal communication. Ability to collaborate and work well with others. A humble team player who places the needs of others first and participates in developing peers on the team.
• Design and business acumen: You understand requirements beyond the written words and can influence product improvements using data insights.
• (Nice to have) Experience building software for B2B or in the Payments / Finance / Fintech industry.