Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Minneapolis, MN (Onsite)

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Opportunity

We're partnering with an innovative financial technology company that's transforming how consumers access modern payment solutions. As the company continues to grow, they're looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to play a key role in designing and building the backend systems that power secure, reliable financial transactions.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of business-critical infrastructure, collaborate with a highly skilled engineering team, and make a direct impact on a rapidly scaling fintech platform.

What You'll Do

In this role, you'll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the backend services that support the company's payment ecosystem. You'll work closely with engineering leadership to build highly available, scalable systems that process financial transactions accurately and securely.

Key responsibilities include:

• Design and develop backend services that support payment processing and money movement.
• Build and maintain integrations with banking partners and third-party payment providers.
• Develop reliable financial systems for transaction tracking, reconciliation, and account balancing.
• Ensure the integrity, security, and accuracy of payment data throughout the platform.
• Create internal tools that improve payment operations and customer servicing workflows.
• Optimize system performance, scalability, and reliability as transaction volume continues to grow.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and leadership to deliver new platform capabilities.
• Implement best practices around testing, monitoring, and fault tolerance for mission-critical services.

What We're Looking For

• Several years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Strong experience developing backend applications using TypeScript and modern server-side frameworks.
• Previous experience working within the financial technology industry or another highly regulated environment.
• Solid understanding of electronic payment processing, banking integrations, or financial transaction systems.
• Experience building scalable APIs and distributed backend services.
• Strong knowledge of database design, transaction consistency, and data reliability.
• Familiarity with secure application development and protecting sensitive financial information.
• Ability to solve complex technical problems while maintaining high engineering standards.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting lending, consumer finance, or credit-based financial products.
• Knowledge of ACH processing, electronic funds transfers, or banking transaction workflows.
• Familiarity with financial reconciliation processes and ledger-based systems.
• Experience working in fast-paced startup or high-growth technology environments.

Why Join?

• Opportunity to build mission-critical financial technology used by a growing customer base.
• Work alongside a collaborative engineering team that values technical excellence and ownership.
• Make a direct impact on products that handle real-world financial transactions.
• Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and strong opportunities for career growth.
• Join a company where your work will influence the future architecture of a rapidly expanding fintech platform.