Jobgether
Staff Backend Engineer (Financial Ledger)
TLDR
Lead the evolution of a live financial core in a SaaS travel-tech platform, shaping architecture and ensuring deterministic, auditable financial flows.
Accountabilities:
- Take technical ownership of the Financial Core system, guiding its evolution, challenging assumptions, and aligning architecture with long-term financial scalability.
- Ensure system integrity by validating lifecycle flows, reconciliation logic, and financial correctness across distributed services.
- Design and maintain ledger-style financial models, including revenue recognition, cost allocation, and multi-party transaction flows.
- Improve and enforce strict financial invariants within an event-driven architecture to ensure deterministic and auditable outcomes.
- Collaborate with finance and engineering leadership to translate business rules into robust technical implementations.
- Lead the evolution of a live production system, identifying gaps in current architecture and driving improvements toward future iterations.
- Support system reliability and scalability across payment, billing, and financial reporting domains.
- Contribute hands-on to backend development while shaping long-term architectural direction.
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience with strong ownership of financial, billing, or transactional systems.
- Proven experience building or maintaining financial platforms such as payment systems, billing engines, ERP solutions, or subscription infrastructure.
- Deep expertise in ledger systems, reconciliation mechanisms, and ensuring deterministic financial correctness.
- Strong understanding of financial concepts such as revenue recognition, liabilities, cost structures, and multi-party money flows.
- Experience evolving complex production systems in active environments without disrupting existing functionality.
- Hands-on engineering mindset with the ability to both design architecture and implement critical backend systems.
- Strong proficiency with Python and relational data modeling (PostgreSQL preferred).
- Experience with event-driven architectures and distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
- Ability to handle complex financial scenarios including multi-currency, taxation logic, and settlement flows.
- Competitive compensation aligned with senior-level backend engineering roles
- Fully remote-friendly work environment
- Opportunity to own a mission-critical financial system at the core of a SaaS transformation
- High-impact technical leadership role with significant architectural autonomy
- Exposure to complex financial systems and large-scale distributed architectures
- Collaborative environment working closely with engineering and finance stakeholders
- Modern cloud-based stack (AWS, event-driven systems, Python-based services)
- Long-term technical ownership of a foundational business system
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How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
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Benefits
Equity Compensation
Opportunity to own a mission-critical financial system at the core of a SaaS transformation
Remote-Friendly
Fully remote-friendly work environment
Jobgether runs the largest remote job platform, effectively linking job seekers with over 200,000 flexible and remote opportunities that match their unique skills and preferences. Our focus is on enhancing the hiring process, ensuring efficiency while prioritizing the candidate experience, particularly in the growing health and wellness sector.
- Founded
- Founded 2020
- Employees
- 11-50 employees
- Industry
- Professional Services
Backend Engineer