Backend Engineer - senior hire
Kovo· Engineering
Remote$150k - $250kFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Join an early-stage startup to build and scale infrastructure powering financial access for millions of underserved Americans. Own critical systems end-to-end with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability, leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate output while maintaining high code quality.
Responsibilities
- Own backend systems and infrastructure end-to-end, from design through deployment and scaling
- Build performant, reliable APIs and services that power our financial products
- Design and implement scalable architectures on AWS using Node (TypeScript)
- Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, reliability, scalability, and maintainability
- Ship production code frequently while maintaining high quality standards
- Help establish technical patterns and best practices for the engineering team
- Interface effectively with product engineers and other stakeholders
Qualifications
- 5+ years or equivalent depth of experience in professional software engineering, with significant backend focus
- Experience building and scaling production systems with Node and AWS
- Proficient with TypeScript (bonus)
- Track record of delivering reliable, performant systems at scale
Skills
Required:Backend developmentNode.jsAWS
Nice to have:TypeScript
Benefits
- Offers benefits
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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