Slope
Senior Backend Engineer, Risk Systems
San Francisco · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 35 days ago
TypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLSnowflakeAWSData ScienceLLMsResearchUnderwriting
About the role
- You will work on the backend and data systems that sit between Engineering, and Data Science.
- You should be excited by messy, important problems.
Responsibilities
- Build and own production systems for underwriting, bank-data review, policy execution, credit review workflows, portfolio monitoring, and risk operations.
- Create reusable infrastructure for evidence gathering, decisioning, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop review.
- Partner closely with Risk and Data Science to define clean contracts between research/prototype code and production backend systems.
- Build internal tools that help the credit risk team review data, understand decisions, handle exceptions, and move faster without sacrificing correctness.
- Own ambiguous projects end-to-end: define the problem, propose a path, align across teams, ship production slices, measure, and iterate.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, preferably in a fast-moving environment.
- Strong production backend experience with Node.js/TypeScript and Python.
- A track record of shipping systems where correctness, reliability, and operational clarity matter.
- You can explain tradeoffs, failure modes, and system boundaries across Engineer and Data Science.
- Experience with AWS, Postgres, Snowflake, queues, async jobs, observability tooling, and third-party financial APIs.
- Experience in payments infrastructure, or credit / cashflow decision systems.
- Experience with LLM or agent workflows for analyst automation, QA, monitoring, or evidence gathering.
Nice to have
- San Francisco preferred.
Company info
- We are looking for a senior backend engineer to own the systems that make that possible.
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