Senior Backend Engineer

4 weeks ago


New York, New York, United States Finch Full time

As the Senior Backend Engineer, you will be a technical leader of our engineering team, responsible for the technical design and development of strategically important products and features and team leadership.

The primary goal will be to develop and deliver products and features that provide value to both customers and our business.

We seek an experienced backend engineer with hands-on development experience to actively participate and manage our product development cycle, and be a leader in technical implementation of product design.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be expected to contribute with your technical proficiency and experience, provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineering team members, and exhibit strong project management skills.

We are looking for an exceptional communicator who can translate customer and business requirements into development priorities. In addition to this, you will be expected to work through product and problem brainstorming with the Finch leadership team to develop scalable, secure, and innovative solutions. This role has the clear potential to grow into our future 'Head of Technology'.

Responsibilities

Technical leadership
Drive overall system architecture and implementation, enabling Finch to scale a secure, responsive user experience
Conduct effective design / code reviews and lead and coach the team to provide effective peer reviews
Contribute and provide technical leadership to multiple initiatives
Mentor and coach the next level of technical leadership
Provide guidance and problem solving to the team to address challenges and blockers
Proactively identify areas for training & development, and contribute to training initiatives
Technical expertise
Research, design, and implement solutions at the highest standards of quality
Analyze requirements and provide design recommendations based on the architecture of existing systems
Lateral thinker to overcome barriers and successfully execute tasks
Adapt and be conversant with the latest technologies and contribute to improving our technology stack
Leverage financial services and fintech expertise in areas such as ACH, fraud, and payments
Project management and communication
Translate customer and business requirements into development priorities
Review and articulate engineering requirements and specifications
Set and manage to efficient timelines for project delivery
Effectively & promptly escalate and communicate risks and issues to engineering and executive leadership
Proactively highlight areas of concern and opportunities

Skills and Qualifications

Driven, self-starter, with strong relationship building and passionate about learning and making a difference
5+ years of back-end engineering experience preferably as part of a startup or venture backed company
5+ years experience with Java or Python in an enterprise context
2+ years experience working with cloud-managed services (AWS or GCP); preference for candidate with IaC AWS hands-on experience
2+ years experience working with RDBMS, document-based and/or NoSQL data stores
Familiarity with iOS development tools and methodologies preferred
Fluent with JIRA and Confluence
Fluent with git versioning tools (BitBucket preferred)
(Preferred) 2+ years in a technical product management role, preferably within the financial technology industry
Strong communication skills and demonstrated capability of navigating written and verbal communication between colleagues, partner institutions, and investors with diverse backgrounds
Understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as HTML5, CSS3 and iOS/Swift
Solid comprehension of behavioral analytics concepts with respect to UX design, data tracking, testing, and metrics
Experience working with a globally-distributed engineering team

Finch focuses on Financial Services, Banking, Consumer, and Fin Tech. Their company has offices in New York City. They have a small team that's between 11-50 employees.
You can view their website at


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