Senior Backend Engineer
Hybrid (San Francisco / Remote (US))$200k - $250kFull-timePosted 4w ago
About the role
Senior backend engineer role to own and build the backend systems powering Slope’s embedded credit, payments and underwriting, with focus on reliability, latency, and AI-native infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Qualifications
- 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.
Skills
Required:Backend engineeringNode.jsTypeScriptSQL / relational databases
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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