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Helix AI Engineer, Backend

Figure· AI - Helix Team
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San Jose, CA$200k - $400kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Backend engineer to build services and infrastructure behind Figure's consumer mobile application, including auth, payments, and tooling. Own systems end to end from identity and billing to delivery pipelines, dashboards, and the cloud platform.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the core auth and identity service, including KYC integration.
  • Build payments and billing infrastructure: payouts, transactions, disputes, and reconciliation.
  • Own the media ingestion and delivery pipeline for high-volume data ingestion.
  • Own the cloud platform: environments, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and cost.
  • Ship the notification system across push, SMS, and email.
  • Build the web interface and dashboards that give the business visibility into tasks, supply, and quality.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years building production backend systems at scale.
  • Strong distributed systems fundamentals: APIs, queues, storage, and event-driven architecture.
  • Hands-on experience with payments, billing, or fintech infrastructure.
  • Hands-on infrastructure experience: AWS or GCP, Terraform or similar, containers, and CI/CD.
  • Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar.
  • Experience shipping systems that move real money for real users, with the reliability bar that implies.

Skills

Required:Backend engineeringDistributed systemsPayments / fintech infrastructureCloud / InfraProgramming languages
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Figure

The future of home help is here

Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.

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