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Socket.dev

Senior Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

We are looking for a senior backend engineer to own the backend systems that make that possible ... You will report to the CEO and work on mission-critical projects.You will help build the operating ...

Straia

Senior Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Remote

$200K - $225K/yr

... Senior Backend Engineer to help build the technical backbone of how institutions interact with ... CEO (Ryan) and CTO (Nikki) to design, build, and scale the core infrastructure of our platform.

F2 AI

Senior Backend Engineer

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$180K - $200K/yr

As a senior backend engineer, you'll be responsible for leading engineering efforts across both our ... Coffee chat w/ CEO Pay and Benefits Base compensation: $180,000 - $200,000 USD Equity: Dependent on ...

Nash

Senior Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

About The Role As a Senior Backend Engineer , you will play a critical role in designing and ... You'll work closely with the CTO, co-founder, and engineering and product team to scale our ...

Straia, Inc

Senior Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$200K - $225K/yr

... Senior Backend Engineer to help build the technical backbone of how institutions interact with ... CEO (Ryan) and CTO (Nikki) to design, build, and scale the core infrastructure of our platform.

Nash, Inc.

Senior Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

Senior Backend Engineer San Francisco / Hybrid / Remote About Nash Logistics is the substrate ... You will work directly with our VP of Engineering, CTO/ co-founder, alongside a tight, high ...

Maxana

Senior Backend Engineer - Payments

About the Role We are seeking a senior backend engineer to support a payment modernization ... You will work directly under the CTO to build and integrate payment orchestration systems and ...

Clarion

Senior Backend Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $225K/yr

Backend systems and architecture with the CTO and a senior engineer. * Onsite Team Day (Half Day, NYC): Collaborate on real problems, present a past project, meet the team, and assess mutual fit.

Cacheflow

Senior Backend Engineer

You will work closely with the CEO and CTO and have ownership to architect and build core parts of ... As part of the founding engineering team you will have a significant impact on our technology ...

Cacheflow

Senior Backend Engineer

You will work closely with the CEO and CTO and have ownership to architect and build core parts of ... As part of the founding engineering team you will have a significant impact on our technology ...

Clarion

Senior Backend Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $225K/yr

Backend systems and architecture with the CTO and a senior engineer. * Onsite Team Day (Half Day, NYC): Collaborate on real problems, present a past project, meet the team, and assess mutual fit.

nitra

Backend Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

A Backend Engineer with experience in Fintech or marketplaces who will be at the forefront of our ... The desire to be mentored by a unicorn founding CTO and engineers with experience at top notch ...

nitra

Backend Engineer

Washington, DC · Hybrid

A Backend Engineer with experience in Fintech or marketplaces who will be at the forefront of our ... The desire to be mentored by a unicorn founding CTO and engineers with experience at top notch ...

nitra

Backend Engineer

New York, NY · Hybrid

A Backend Engineer with experience in Fintech or marketplaces who will be at the forefront of our ... The desire to be mentored by a unicorn founding CTO and engineers with experience at top notch ...

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Senior Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA • On-site

Socket.dev
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Posted 23 days ago

Key responsibilities

  • Build and own production systems for underwriting, bank-data review, credit review workflows, and portfolio monitoring.

  • Create reusable infrastructure for evidence gathering, decisioning, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop review.

  • Build internal tools to assist the credit risk team in data review, understanding decisions, handling exceptions, and improving workflow efficiency.

Job description

About Slope

SlopeSlope builds AI-native credit infrastructure for B2B commerce. We help growing businesses access capital and help credit teams make faster, better, more automated decisions.We are looking for a senior backend engineer to own the backend systems that make that possible.

The role

You will work on the backend systems that power Slope’s embedded credit, payments and underwriting.You should be excited by messy, important problems. Your job is to turn ambiguous problems and improvements into reliable production systems.

What you’ll do
  • Build and own production systems for underwriting, bank-data review, credit review workflows, portfolio monitoring.
  • Create reusable infrastructure for evidence gathering, decisioning, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop review.
  • Build internal tools that help the credit risk team review data, understand decisions, handle exceptions, and move faster without sacrificing correctness.
  • Clearly communicate technical assumptions, tradeoffs, failure modes, system boundaries, and migration plans.
  • Own ambiguous projects end-to-end: define the problem, propose a path, align across teams, ship production slices, measure, and iterate.
  • Improve the reliability, latency, correctness of systems that directly affect credit decisions and customer experience.
What we’re looking for
  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience, preferably in a fast-moving environment.
  • Strong production backend experience with Node.js/TypeScript.
  • Strong SQL skills and comfort working with relational databases, data warehouses, ETL/data pipelines, and messy real-world data.
  • Experience designing APIs, services, jobs, data models, and contracts that other teams depend on.
  • Experience in payments infrastructure.
  • A track record of shipping systems where correctness, reliability, and operational clarity matter.
  • High agency and proactive: you do not need fully specified tickets, and you know how to create clarity when the problem is vague.
  • Strong written and verbal communication. You can explain tradeoffs, and failure modes.
  • Product judgment for internal users. You care whether the system actually improves underwriting decisions and workflows, not just whether the code shipped.
  • Experience with AWS, Postgres, Snowflake, queues, async jobs, observability tooling, and third-party financial APIs.
  • Excitement around building AI-native infrastructure and agentic workflows, both within the engineering team as well as broader credit and data science teams.
  • Excited to experiment with AI tools.
  • Strong plus: Startup experience, especially in a high-ownership environment.
Why Slope

You will work on the core systems that determine how Slope understands risk, extends capital, and helps businesses grow.You will have high ownership: small team, important surface area, real production impact.You will report to the CEO and work on mission-critical projects.You will help build the operating system for B2B credit: faster decisions, better workflows, stronger feedback loops, and scalable infrastructure.Slope is backed by top investors including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Y Combinator, Union Square Ventures, and leading founders/operators across fintech and technology.

Other

Location: San Francisco preferred. Exceptional remote candidates in compatible time zones considered.Level: Senior IC.

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