As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, you will play a key role in designing and maintaining the systems that power essential product capabilities such as Payments, Billing, Identity, and partner integrations. You'll collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams in an agile environment, delivering frequent, incremental improvements to address real user pain points in rent payment workflows.
What You'll Do
- Develop and scale backend services that support critical business functions
- Design, implement, and test APIs with a focus on reliability and performance
- Work iteratively in a fast-moving environment, deploying small, frequent updates
- Lead the scoping and technical design of new features from concept to production
- Ensure smooth deployment and monitoring of services with minimal supervision
- Collaborate across technical and non-technical teams to align on scope, timelines, and delivery
What We're Looking For
- At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience, with 4+ years using Java
- Strong proficiency with Spring, Spring Boot, Gradle, JUnit, and JVM performance tuning
- Experience building fault-tolerant systems that integrate with multiple external services
- Familiarity with data pipeline design and maintenance
- Hands-on experience with AWS technologies including EKS, Aurora RDS, ElastiCache, and DynamoDB
- Deep understanding of REST APIs, message queues, and service-oriented architectures
- Ability to thrive in a globally distributed, high-autonomy environment
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitHub Actions
- Proficiency in observability tools like DataDog
- Background with big data platforms such as Snowflake
- Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using CDK or Terraform
- Track record of mentoring junior engineers and improving team practices
- Strong communication skills and experience in cross-functional collaboration
Environment & Culture
The team operates with high ownership and agility, shipping small changes quickly in response to user needs. We're mission-focused on giving renters more control over their payments, and we work in a stealth-mode phase backed by strong investor confidence and early user traction. You'll have the freedom to make decisions and the support to grow in a challenging, fast-paced setting.
