GiveCard
Money Movement, Made Magical.
Staff Backend Engineer
Location
New York
Posted
17 days ago
Salary
$210K - $240K / year
Bachelor Degree8 yrs expEnglishJavaPostgre SQLRubyGo
Job Description
• 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.
• 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.
Job Requirements
- 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, leading technical design discussions, and owning large systems end-to-end
- 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.
Benefits
- A minimum of 25 days of PTO
- 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your family
- Generous parental leave
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