Promise Pay

Promise Pay

Product Engineer - Backend

San Francisco · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 272 days ago
Distributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentAWSGCP

About the role

  • You'll spend most of your time hands-on with code, working on microservices and distributed systems, while growing alongside teammates and shaping our engineering culture.
  • This is a role for someone who loves to solve complex problems at scale, thrives in collaborative environments, and wants their work to have real-world impact.

Responsibilities

  • Build with impact: Architect and implement scalable backend services that power our payments and financial products.
  • Collaborate deeply: Work with infrastructure, product, and forward-deployed teams to deliver reliable end-to-end solutions.
  • Keep systems strong: Monitor, debug, and optimize distributed systems to ensure reliability and high availability.
  • Systems expertise: Passion for building and debugging large-scale distributed systems.
  • Mindset: Curious, autonomous, and accountable-with a drive to own problems end-to-end.

Requirements

  • Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms.
  • You are energized by big, complex challenges and the opportunity to solve them.

Nice to have

  • Experience in fintech, payments, or government technology environments.

Benefits

  • We cover 100% of base medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for employees and their dependents.
  • Level up the team: Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of learning, ownership, and engineering excellence.
  • Bonus: Experience in fintech, payments, or government technology environments.

Company info

  • Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of learning, ownership, and engineering excellence.

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