Staff Backend Engineer (Financial Ledger)

Overview

Accountabilities

• Take technical ownership of the Financial Core system, guiding its evolution, challenging assumptions, and aligning architecture with long-term financial scalability.
• Ensure system integrity by validating lifecycle flows, reconciliation logic, and financial correctness across distributed services.
• Design and maintain ledger-style financial models, including revenue recognition, cost allocation, and multi-party transaction flows.
• Improve and enforce strict financial invariants within an event-driven architecture to ensure deterministic and auditable outcomes.
• Collaborate with finance and engineering leadership to translate business rules into robust technical implementations.
• Lead the evolution of a live production system, identifying gaps in current architecture and driving improvements toward future iterations.
• Support system reliability and scalability across payment, billing, and financial reporting domains.
• Contribute hands-on to backend development while shaping long-term architectural direction.

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience with strong ownership of financial, billing, or transactional systems.
• Proven experience building or maintaining financial platforms such as payment systems, billing engines, ERP solutions, or subscription infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in ledger systems, reconciliation mechanisms, and ensuring deterministic financial correctness.
• Strong understanding of financial concepts such as revenue recognition, liabilities, cost structures, and multi-party money flows.
• Experience evolving complex production systems in active environments without disrupting existing functionality.
• Hands-on engineering mindset with the ability to both design architecture and implement critical backend systems.
• Strong proficiency with Python and relational data modeling (PostgreSQL preferred).
• Experience with event-driven architectures and distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Ability to handle complex financial scenarios including multi-currency, taxation logic, and settlement flows.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation aligned with senior-level backend engineering roles
• Fully remote-friendly work environment
• Opportunity to own a mission-critical financial system at the core of a SaaS transformation
• High-impact technical leadership role with significant architectural autonomy
• Exposure to complex financial systems and large-scale distributed architectures
• Collaborative environment working closely with engineering and finance stakeholders
• Modern cloud-based stack (AWS, event-driven systems, Python-based services)
• Long-term technical ownership of a foundational business system

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