This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description We’re hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to take deep ownership of the most critical financial systems at GiveCard. This is a hands-on individual contributor role for someone who loves writing hard backend code, designing durable systems that move real money, and building infrastructure that must be correct, auditable, and resilient at scale. - Own and evolve GiveCard’s most critical backend systems, including our core ledgering, payment orchestration, and task execution infrastructure. - Lead our highest-complexity technical work, designing foundational financial workflows and integrations. - Raise the technical bar across the backend team by setting best practices for system design, code quality, documentation, and engineering judgment. - Act as a strategic technical partner in shaping GiveCard’s architecture and product direction. - Mentor and up-level other engineers through thoughtful feedback, design reviews, and collaborative problem-solving. Qualifications - 8+ years of experience architecting, building, shipping, and maintaining backend software at scale. - Experience acting as a technical leader or Staff-level individual contributor, including mentoring engineers and leading technical design discussions. - Strong backend engineering experience in one or more production languages (Go, Java, Ruby, etc.), with a willingness to work primarily in Go. - Experience designing and operating complex systems, with strong comfort working with Postgres and relational data models. - Ability to ramp up quickly in a new product ecosystem and contribute meaningfully to large, high-impact projects. - Experience working in startup or high-autonomy environments, and comfort operating effectively amid ambiguity. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences. - Ability to give and receive high-quality feedback in technical specs, code reviews, and team discussions. - A strong desire to use your work to make a positive impact in the world. Requirements - Experience building financial systems, payment infrastructure, core ledgers, or banking platforms. - Comfort designing systems that require correctness, idempotency, reconciliation, and auditability. - Experience operating backend systems under high load and real-world failure conditions. - Comfort making infrastructure and DevOps decisions using AWS, Terraform, and modern cloud tooling. - Excellent judgment when trading off speed, robustness, and long-term scalability. - The ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across a wide range of seniority levels. - A strong sense of ownership and an impact-driven mindset. - Passion for mentoring and helping other engineers grow. - Curiosity and excitement when working with new technologies or tackling novel, difficult problems. Benefits - Working alongside very smart people on technology that genuinely matters. - A remote-friendly work environment with a dog-friendly office in Manhattan. - A minimum of 25 days of PTO. - 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your family. - Generous parental leave. - Expected compensation of $210,000 – $240,000, based on level and experience.