Member of Technical Staff, Reporting and Statements (Backend Engineer)
You will design and implement APIs and service layers that deliver financial reports and statements. You will build reliable integrations between backend services and the data platform, ensuring correct data flow and robust error handling. You will shape architecture decisions for API and service delivery, balancing accuracy, performance, and scalability. You will collaborate with data engineers on data contracts and SLAs and partner with product to design self service data APIs. You will operate and maintain services in production, including monitoring, incident response, containerized deployments, and cloud native operations.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints that serve financial data
- Build service integration layers between backend services and the data platform
- Ensure reliable data flow and implement robust error handling
- Shape architectural decisions for API and service delivery infrastructure
- Balance accuracy, performance, and scalability when delivering reporting products
- Collaborate with Data Engineers on data contracts and SLAs
- Partner with Product to design APIs that enable self service access to financial data
- Champion API design best practices and service reliability standards
- Operate and maintain services end to end in production
Requirements
- 5-7+ years building backend systems and production services
- Experience designing and shipping production APIs and services that handle complex business logic at scale
- Service stewardship mindset with responsibility for services end to end in production environments
- Proficiency in Go or Python and hands on experience building RESTful APIs
- Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL or BigQuery, including query optimization and connection pooling
- Knowledge of data consistency patterns
- Cloud native development experience, preferably on GCP, including containerization, monitoring, and incident response
Benefits
- Remote friendly work policy
- Option to work in office in New York City
- Option to work in office in Sioux Falls
- Option to work in office in Porto
- Option to work in office in Lisbon
- Option to work in office in Singapore
- Company sponsored quarterly in person collaboration days