Backend Engineer
- Where
- Remote · Remote - Worldwide
- Level
- Architect
- Salary
- €116k–146k
- Technologies
- TypeScriptNode.jsKafkaPostgreSQLAWSKubernetesRabbitMQEvent-driven
- First sniffed
- 30 Sept 2026 22:00 · open 27 days
- Last verified
- 06 Oct 2026 19:45 · since closed
- Source
- Company careers page via himalayas
About the Role
This is a backend engineering role at the heart of a fintech team building compliance and identity infrastructure for businesses. You will design scalable, high-trust systems and help shape the engineering culture of a senior, distributed team solving a genuinely hard technical problem.
What You'll Do
- Design and build backend systems that are clean, testable, and efficient.
- Architect scalable APIs and infrastructure suited to high-trust, regulated environments.
- Bring strong opinions on testing, quality, and long-term maintainability to every project.
- Tackle complex product challenges by thinking deeply about user needs and system behavior.
- Shape engineering practices and technical culture through collaboration and hands-on leadership.
What We're Looking For
- 5 or more years of backend engineering experience building production APIs, distributed services, or backend systems; the team skews toward 7+ years.
- Strong systems thinking: ability to see beyond individual features and reason about large-scale architectural problems.
- Experience building in high-trust or regulated domains such as fintech, payments, or identity.
- Hands-on experience with relational databases (Postgres or similar) in production.
- Experience with message queues or event-driven architectures (RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar).
- Experience deploying and managing applications in containerized or cloud environments (Kubernetes, AWS, or similar).
- A track record of writing automated tests and maintaining testable codebases.
- Familiarity with Node.js, TypeScript, Express, and Event Sourcing patterns is a plus but not required.
- Background at a high-caliber fintech, payments, or high-growth technology company is a strong signal.
- Clear communicator who enjoys breaking down complexity and collaborating closely with teammates.
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and driven by curiosity, big ambitions, and kindness.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: EUR 116,000 to 146,000 , applied consistently at each level with no individual salary negotiation. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
Fully remote, open to candidates in European timezones. European timezone availability is a hard requirement. The team meets in person every six weeks for a company-wide gathering.
Originally posted on Himalayas