Software Engineer

Software Engineer – Backend / Full Stack

📍 New York, NY

🏢 On-site Monday–Thursday; work from home Friday

💰 $180,000–$230,000 base salary + competitive equity

💼 Full-time

🛂 Open to OPT and H-1B visa transfers

About the Opportunity

We’re recruiting for a fast-growing fintech startup building financial infrastructure for the nonprofit and charitable-giving ecosystem. Its platform already processes billions of dollars in payments and supports more than 100,000 nonprofit donation forms.

The company is looking for a Backend / Full Stack Engineer with 2–10 years of backend engineering experience. You’ll join a small, high-caliber engineering team and own systems end to end—from architecture and technical design through deployment and production.

This is a high-autonomy position with direct access to the founders and leadership team. Your judgment will influence both what gets built and how the engineering organization operates.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and own backend services and components powering a large-scale payment platform
• Take projects from architecture and technical planning through deployment and production support
• Contribute to decisions involving APIs, infrastructure, data systems, and engineering best practices
• Build reliable, scalable systems for processing high-volume financial transactions
• Improve real-time monitoring and alerting to provide better visibility into product performance and user behavior
• Collaborate directly with founders, product leaders, and engineers through whiteboarding and technical discussions
• Work across different areas of the platform rather than being limited to a single product line
• Help establish technical standards as the engineering team and platform continue to scale

What We’re Looking For

• 2–10 years of professional backend engineering experience
• Strong experience designing and building production-grade backend applications
• Ability to independently own complex projects from initial design through launch
• Solid understanding of APIs, databases, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
• Strong technical judgment and the confidence to contribute meaningfully to architecture decisions
• Clear communication skills and a collaborative, low-ego approach to technical debate
• Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment with limited layers and high ownership
• Willingness to work from the New York City office Monday through Thursday

Technology Stack

• Go
• Node.js
• PostgreSQL
• REST APIs and gRPC
• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Terraform

Direct experience with every technology is not required, but candidates should have strong backend fundamentals and the ability to learn new systems quickly.

Compensation

• $180,000–$230,000 base salary
• Competitive equity
• Compensation may exceed the stated range for candidates with exceptional experience and strong interview performance