Staff Backend Engineer - Shared Services

Role Overview

As a Staff Backend Engineer in Shared Services, you establish technical standards and raise the excellence bar for the engineering team. You work with the engineering head to set technical direction for backend systems across Growth, Onboarding and Shared Experience. You solve the hardest problems that cut across teams, such as KYC reliability, partner integrations and the services behind portfolio and homepage, and you make the engineers around you stronger. You stay hands-on where it matters most.

• Define the technical direction and architecture for backend systems that span several teams in the investor journey.
• Lead the design of scalable, fault-tolerant and secure services, and review critical designs from other teams.
• Identify technical risks early, weigh trade-offs and drive decisions that fit business goals.
• Lead investigations and root cause analysis for complex production incidents, and drive lasting improvements.
• Set and promote engineering standards for reliability, observability, security and performance.
• Partner with Engineering Managers, Product, Ops and Architecture to deliver cross-team initiatives.
• Mentor Senior Engineers and help grow technical leadership across the team.
• Stay hands-on with implementation for critical components and complex problems.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering, with a proven record of designing and running large-scale distributed systems and leading technical work across teams.
• Languages: Highly proficient in Java and Go.
• System Design & Architecture: Strong expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, reliability engineering, observability and performance optimization.
• Data & Messaging: Deep practical experience with Kafka, Redis, and relational and NoSQL databases, including query tuning.
• Infrastructure: Experience designing and operating applications on cloud platforms (GCP, AWS).
• Mindset & Domain: Background in fintech or another high-scale, regulated environment. Strong communication, with the ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority.