Imprint

Imprint

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

New York City · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 77 days ago
GoDistributed SystemsGitMySQLDynamoDBAWSKubernetesGitHub ActionsDatadogTemporalKafkaAccountingLeadershipPublic SpeakingUnderwriting

About the role

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • We partner with companies like Crate & Barrel, Rakuten, Booking.com http://Booking.com, H-E-B, Fetch, and Shell to launch modern credit programs that deepen loyalty, unlock savings, and drive growth.
  • We combine advanced payments infrastructure, intelligent underwriting, and deep customer data to create delightful and personalized experiences for members as well as efficient and profitable relationships for our brand partners.
  • Our robust technology and world-class operations allow us and our brand partners to offer powerful financial products without becoming a bank.
  • 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.
  • every transaction, every credit decision, and every rewards calculation runs on the financial infrastructure we build.
  • You write code, make design decisions, and own outcomes.
  • Imprint welcomes talented individuals from all backgrounds who want to build the future of payments and rewards.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building production backend systems, operating in the details and driving strong technical outcomes
  • Proficiency in Go (our primary backend language), or a similar language with willingness to ramp quickly

Nice to have

  • Startup experience a plus

Skills

  • Experience using AI tools (code assistants, MCP servers, agentic workflows) to accelerate development, or genuine enthusiasm to adopt them

Compensation

  • In the U.S., co-branded cards alone account for over $300 billion in annual spend, and most still run on decades-old legacy bank systems.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
  • Additional health coverage includes access to One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA
  • 20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
  • set the technical vision for shared services, API infrastructure, and developer tooling that make the entire engineering team faster and more reliable.
  • flexible, embeddable, and built for how people actually pay today.

Company info

  • Imprint helps the world's best brands grow the lifetime value of their customers. We started with co-branded credit cards and rebuilt them to be smarter, more rewarding, and brand-first. We partner with companies like Crate & Barrel, Rakuten, Booking.com http://Booking.com, H-E-B, Fetch, and Shell to launch modern credit programs that deepen loyalty, unlock savings, and drive growth. But the card is just the beginning. We combine advanced payments infrastructure, intelligent underwriting, and deep customer data to create delightful and personalized experiences for members as well as efficient and profitable relationships for our brand partners. Our robust technology and world-class operations allow us and our brand partners to offer powerful financial products without becoming a bank.
  • In the U.S., co-branded cards alone account for over $300 billion in annual spend, and most still run on decades-old legacy bank systems. 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.
  • Imprint helps the world's best brands grow the lifetime value of their customers.
  • We started with co-branded credit cards and rebuilt them to be smarter, more rewarding, and brand-first.
  • But the card is just the beginning.
  • In the U.S., co-branded cards alone account for over $300 billion in annual spend, and most still run on decades-old legacy bank systems.
  • Imprint is the modern alternative: flexible, embeddable, and built for how people actually pay today.
  • The backend is core to this expansion: every transaction, every credit decision, and every rewards calculation runs on the financial infrastructure we build.

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • 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
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