About the role

Build and maintain scalable backend services for a Series A fintech product. Own feature delivery end-to-end — from technical design through deployment and on-call — inside a 15-person engineering team moving at high velocity.

Who succeeds here

3+ yrs backend experience · shipped production features · comfortable with ambiguity · strong debugging instincts

Company context

Series A · 15-person eng team · Python/Django stack · fast iteration · no legacy debt yet

First 90 days

Week 1-2: Pair with 2 senior engineers on live incidents and read the top 3 services end-to-end. Week 3-6: Ship a first feature behind a flag — payment retry logic for the new BNPL product. Own design through deploy. Week 7-10: Take the on-call rotation. Write 2 runbooks for the highest-frequency P1s. Week 11-13: Lead the technical design for the merchant settlement reconciliation rewrite. Present to the team.

What we'll evaluate

• Technical Problem Solving (35%)
• Code Quality & Engineering Discipline (25%)
• Collaboration & Communication (25%)
• Learning & Adaptability (15%)