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Role Description

We’re hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to take deep ownership of the most critical financial systems at GiveCard. This is a hands-on individual contributor role for someone who loves writing hard backend code, designing durable systems that move real money, and building infrastructure that must be correct, auditable, and resilient at scale.

• Own and evolve GiveCard’s most critical backend systems, including our core ledgering, payment orchestration, and task execution infrastructure.
• Lead our highest-complexity technical work, designing foundational financial workflows and integrations.
• Raise the technical bar across the backend team by setting best practices for system design, code quality, documentation, and engineering judgment.
• Act as a strategic technical partner in shaping GiveCard’s architecture and product direction.
• Mentor and up-level other engineers through thoughtful feedback, design reviews, and collaborative problem-solving.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience architecting, building, shipping, and maintaining backend software at scale.
• Experience acting as a technical leader or Staff-level individual contributor, including mentoring engineers and leading technical design discussions.
• Strong backend engineering experience in one or more production languages (Go, Java, Ruby, etc.), with a willingness to work primarily in Go.
• Experience designing and operating complex systems, with strong comfort working with Postgres and relational data models.
• Ability to ramp up quickly in a new product ecosystem and contribute meaningfully to large, high-impact projects.
• Experience working in startup or high-autonomy environments, and comfort operating effectively amid ambiguity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to give and receive high-quality feedback in technical specs, code reviews, and team discussions.
• A strong desire to use your work to make a positive impact in the world.

Requirements

• Experience building financial systems, payment infrastructure, core ledgers, or banking platforms.
• Comfort designing systems that require correctness, idempotency, reconciliation, and auditability.
• Experience operating backend systems under high load and real-world failure conditions.
• Comfort making infrastructure and DevOps decisions using AWS, Terraform, and modern cloud tooling.
• Excellent judgment when trading off speed, robustness, and long-term scalability.
• The ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across a wide range of seniority levels.
• A strong sense of ownership and an impact-driven mindset.
• Passion for mentoring and helping other engineers grow.
• Curiosity and excitement when working with new technologies or tackling novel, difficult problems.

Benefits

• Working alongside very smart people on technology that genuinely matters.
• A remote-friendly work environment with a dog-friendly office in Manhattan.
• A minimum of 25 days of PTO.
• 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your family.
• Generous parental leave.
• Expected compensation of $210,000 – $240,000, based on level and experience.