Sr. Software Engineer, Backend (Platform) at Synctera

, , United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

16 Mar, 26

Salary

190000.0

Posted On

17 Dec, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Software Engineering, Go, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, RESTful APIs, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloud Run, Data Engineering, Security Compliance, Infrastructure, Developer Experience, Financial Services, Problem Solving, Collaboration

Industry

Financial Services

Description

What We're Doing At Synctera, we’re powering the future of FinTech. We help companies create new revenue streams and enhance their value proposition with FinTech apps and embedded banking products. With APIs, compliance support, and bank partners in one end-to-end Banking as a Service platform, Synctera is the fastest and easiest way to build, launch, and scale bank accounts, debit cards, charge cards, lending, and more. We help banks increase deposits and non-interest income by expanding their footprint through FinTech and embedded finance partnerships. The Synctera Platform enables banks to manage their program through a fully compliant, scalable solution. We are looking for interesting, curious, wickedly smart people who are ready to jump in and run with our fast-growing team. If you want to have fun at work, collaborate with some of the sharpest people in the industry, grow the FinTech and Banking as a Service ecosystem, and love to win, read on! What We’re Looking For As a software engineer on our Platform team, you’ll own and build core pieces of Synctera’s infrastructure and platform, including foundational backend services, customer and internal-facing infrastructure, and tooling that improves our developer experience. While the platform is your primary focus, you’ll also partner closely with product teams, at times embedding with them to support and build features that require deeper systems or infrastructure expertise. This is a high-autonomy role suited for someone curious, adaptable, and motivated to learn. You’ll work across a broad set of product and engineering initiatives, act as a go-to escalation point for infrastructure-related questions, and help drive solutions that span teams and systems. What You’ll Do Design, enhance, and maintain Synctera’s Google Cloud and CI/CD infrastructure Develop and maintain backend services and utilities in Go Build and evolve platform tooling that improves reliability and the internal developer experience Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure platform stability and reliability Identify and implement cleaner, more efficient solutions to technical problems Help define and drive Synctera’s infrastructure and developer experience roadmap Work across engineering teams to support shared platform needs and act as an escalation point for infrastructure-related questions Collaborate with product teams to understand financial services challenges and design scalable solutions Advocate for modern infrastructure and development best practices, fostering knowledge-sharing across the team What You’ll Bring 4-6+ years of professional work experience as a software engineer Experience with Go or a comparable structured and opinionated language Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases Experience with at least one major cloud provider, preferably Google Cloud Experience in using and creating RESTful APIs, which will be consumed by our frontend engineers and our customers Hunger to learn and the ability to guide your own learning Nice to have: Experience with data engineering and data pipelines (Postgres, BigQuery, dbt, Airflow) Familiarity with security compliance frameworks (PCI, SOC 2, SOC 1) Experience being a part of early-stage, fast-moving engineering teams Our Stack Our platform is built in Go (for backend services) and React with Typescript (for the Synctera Console, our frontend). We’re built on top of Google Cloud Platform and typically use Postgres (Cloud SQL, AlloyDB), Redis (Cloud Memorystore), and Pub/Sub as our core application stack, with OpenAPI specifications being used to both document our API and be the foundation for inter-service communication. Our infrastructure is predominantly a mixture of Kubernetes (Google Kubernetes Engine) and Cloud Run (Google’s serverless compute platform), with Terraform orchestrating infrastructure, and tools like Argo facilitating deployments. Diversity & Inclusion Synctera is committed to having a workforce that is reflective of the diversity within the United States and Canada. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applications from candidates from underrepresented communities, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity, and all those who can provide different perspectives and contribute to the diversification of Synctera. Benefits 100% employer paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for US and Canadian employees and dependents Employer contribution to HSA for US employees Annual HCSA and generous extended health care coverage for Canadian employees and dependents 401(k) for US employees and RRSP for Canadian employees Mental health resources available for all employees Unlimited paid time off Generous paid new parent leave program Home office setup stipend Stock options program for all employees Growth potential and opportunity to have a significant impact at an early stage of our company's journey Working alongside a skilled and passionate team The base salary for this full-time position (USD: $150,000 - $190,000, CAD: $130,000 - $180,000) is determined by role, level, and location. The range informed in this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries across all US and Canadian locations. Within the range, individual pay will be determined by work location, job-related skills, experience, relevant training, and other factors. To all recruiters and recruitment agencies: Synctera does not accept unsolicited resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or to Synctera employees without an active vendor agreement in place. Synctera is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. With the current increase in job recruitment phishing scams globally, we wanted to remind you that all official communications from Synctera will only come from a synctera.com email address. If you’ve received a communication regarding Synctera that you have a question or concern about, please contact recruiting@synctera.com. Please note that although all positions at Synctera are remote, candidates must be located and authorized to work in the US or Canada as a precondition of employment. Synctera does not sponsor applicants for work visas.

Responsibilities

As a software engineer on the Platform team, you will design, enhance, and maintain Synctera’s Google Cloud and CI/CD infrastructure while developing backend services in Go. You will also collaborate with product teams to understand challenges and design scalable solutions.