Product Engineer (Software Engineer)

About the Role

This is a full-stack product engineering role at a Series A fintech startup building consumer financial tools — think cash advances, paycheck boosting, and credit building. You'll work closely with product, engineering, and business leaders to ship high-impact features that directly improve users' financial wellbeing.

What You'll Do

• Build product features end-to-end, including domain models, business logic, and API integrations.

• Drive incremental, data-driven releases toward ambitious product milestones.

• Use SQL and analytics tools to evaluate product and system performance against robust data pipelines.

• Test and debug complex state machines in an event-driven, pub/sub backend to ensure a seamless user experience.

• Ship to production daily via a rapid CI/CD process, owning implementations end-to-end and responding to production incidents as needed.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years building backend features end-to-end for production systems.

• Proficiency designing and consuming RESTful APIs, including authentication/authorization patterns and rate limiting.

• Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar).

• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), including data modeling and query optimization.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control, automated testing, and code review processes.

• Experience debugging complex state machines in event-driven systems.

• Prior experience building consumer-facing products (not B2B only).

• Strong computer science fundamentals — algorithms, data structures, and system design.

• Excellent cross-functional communication skills, including the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

• Nice to have: Experience with Go (Golang) deployed on GCP; background at early-stage or high-growth startups.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $120,000 – $200,000 USD annually.

• Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, CA. This role is not remote.