Senior Backend Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: $145K - $170K

Grid is a new player in the fraud prevention space, dedicated to designing future-proof solutions for financial firms and startups. After experiencing fraud firsthand, our co-founders created a platform that’s more of a fortress than a tool, saving clients millions in annual revenue. Our fraud prevention platform integrates multiple data providers into a single, powerful solution designed for rapid deployment and ease of use.

Responsibilities

• Build robust, fault-tolerant integrations with 3rd party APIs, even with limited or poor documentation.
• Create sophisticated background processing pipelines that are also fault-tolerant.
• Develop mature APIs and microservices adhering to RESTful principles, used by paying clients in production.
• Write strong unit and integration tests to ensure code quality.
• Investigate client issues and service disruptions requiring a deep dive.
• Translate high-level requirements into system design updates and new data models, collaborating with clients and team members.
• Evaluate architectural and design decisions within existing applications.
• Work autonomously and make system design decisions resistant to change, leveraging experience.
• Deeply invested in work and client happiness.
• Mentor junior to mid-level engineers while holding them accountable.

Requirements

• 7+ years of full-time experience as a Software Engineer
• BS in Computer Science or commensurate experience
• Proficient in TypeScript and JavaScript programming languages
• Strong experience with relational databases (schema, query design, implementation, optimization, and ORM usage)
• Deep understanding of Node.js semantics (event loops, streams, events, etc.)
• Proven track record for integrating with external APIs
• Full confidence in building a fault-tolerant and high-performant microservice
• Experience with background job processing, queues, etc.
• History of scaling and optimizing application performance for rapid growth

Company Information

• About Grid: Grid is a new player in the fraud prevention space, dedicated to designing future-proof solutions for financial firms and startups.
• Our Stack:
  • NestJS
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • TypeORM
  • RabbitMQ
  • Redis
  • Heroku

Benefits & Perks

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• $1,500.00 professional development budget
• Fitness/Wellness reimbursement
• Internet reimbursement
• Home Office $1,000.00 stipend
• Unlimited PTO with manager approval
• Mental health days off
• Annual company offsite

Bonus

• Software Engineering experience in Finance or FinTech
• Experience on the Google Cloud Platform