Staff Software Engineer, Backend

We are seeking an innovative and forward-thinking Staff Software Developer passionate about building a world-class platform through a world-class team. Creating technical software excellence and spearheading application development in design, implementation, and maintenance to make great things happen.

• →Drive architectural decisions for the platform, balancing scalability, maintainability, and rapid deployment goals
• →Establish technical standards and design patterns that enable the team to ship features faster with fewer defects
• →Lead technical design reviews and provide constructive feedback that elevates the team's architectural thinking
• →Identify and eliminate technical debt strategically, creating roadmaps that improve both developer velocity and system reliability

• Mentor mid-level and senior engineers, helping them grow into technical leadership roles
• Break down complex, ambiguous problems into actionable work that distributes effectively across the team
• Establish coding standards, review practices, and testing strategies that improve overall code quality
• Champion engineering standard processes including observability, incident response, and production excellence
• Share your enthusiasm for tech trends, explore and learn new technologies, engage with tech communities, mentor fellow engineers, and lead in technical design and code evaluations

• Partner with Product and Customer Success teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Collaborate across distributed teams (Ireland, U.S., Philippines, Australia) to drive alignment on technical approaches
• Influence product roadmap by identifying technical opportunities that create competitive advantages
• Bridge the gap between technical implementation and business value, helping the team prioritize high-impact work

• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the development lifecycle that slow down the entire team
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and deployment processes to increase velocity
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices that improve developer experience and productivity
• Lead post-mortems and blameless retrospectives that turn incidents into learning opportunities

• Anticipate future scalability challenges before they become blockers (e.g., handling 10x growth in transaction volume)
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend when/how to adopt them (e.g., new ML frameworks, database technologies)
• Design systems that support the 90-day implementation promise while maintaining enterprise-grade quality
• Balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery, knowing when "good enough now" beats "perfect later"

• Own critical systems end-to-end, from design through production support
• Take responsibility for production reliability and proactively prevent incidents
• Step into ambiguous situations and drive them to resolution without needing explicit direction
• Lead by example in code quality, documentation, and operational excellence
• Make tough technical trade-off decisions and clearly communicate the reasoning

• Build and maintain API integrations with major ERPs (SAP, Oracle, Workday) and banking systems to automatically pull transactional data

• Develop and optimize machine learning models for the GSmart AI engine that predicts cash flows and automatically selects optimal forecasting algorithms
• Build automated variance analysis systems that compare actuals vs. forecasts and generate actionable insights
• Create pattern recognition algorithms to identify anomalies, seasonal trends, and customer payment behaviors

• Design and implement flexible worksheet engines that allow users to customize cash flow models, categories, and reporting calendars

• Optimize data processing for handling billions of dollars in daily transactions
• Build caching and aggregation strategies for real-time dashboard performance
• Design distributed systems architecture to support a 90-day rapid implementation model

• Create interactive dashboards and visualization components for cash position insights
• Build automated notification systems for covenant compliance monitoring and unusual variance alerts

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years working on complex, business-critical systems in production
• Experience working on products with significant scale
• Strong communication skills with experience working in multi-functional projects
• Track record of delivering projects that span multiple quarters and require coordination across teams

• Owned and evolved significant portions of a production system end-to-end
• Been on-call for production systems and handled critical incidents
• Led technical designs that were implemented by teams of 3+ engineers
• Made architectural decisions that had lasting impact on system capabilities

• Mentored 2+ engineers to help them level up technically
• Established technical patterns that were adopted across the team
• Led technical spikes to evaluate new technologies or approaches

• Proficiency with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Understanding of infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipeline design
• Knowledge of observability: logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting strategies
• Experience with microservices deployment patterns and service mesh concepts

• Deep understanding of distributed systems patterns, even driven architectures, and message queues
• Multi-tenancy architecture and data isolation strategies
• Role-based access control (RBAC) and authorization patterns
• Audit logging and compliance requirements for financial systems
• API versioning and backward compatibility strategies
• Feature flagging and progressive rollout techniques

• Deep expertise with Ruby on Rails
• Expert in RDBMS (ideally PostGres), including query optimization, indexing strategies, and data modeling
• Deep experience in building large scale multi-tenant applications
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs and understanding when to use alternative patterns (GraphQL, gRPC, webhooks)
• Deep knowledge in building applications using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and related technologies

• Understanding of financial concepts: cash positioning, forecasting, liquidity management
• Knowledge of banking systems, payment rails, and financial data formats (MT940, BAI2, SWIFT)
• Understanding of multi-currency handling, exchange rates, and date/time complexities across time zones
• Awareness of financial compliance and regulatory requirements (SOC 2, data privacy)
• Experience integrating with third-party financial systems (banks, ERPs, payment processors)

Do Your Best Work

• The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
• A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact.  A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
• Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
• In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in. 
• Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
• We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!

Take Control of Your Finances

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
• Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Employee giving match
• Mobile phone stipend

Take Care of Yourself

• R&R days so you can rest and recharge
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
• Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
• Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
• Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events

Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.