About this role
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing financial technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the backend services that handle payment flows and identity checks as a product moves into live production use. The work covers security, reliability, compliance controls and performance, with an emphasis on correctness and recoverability.
What you'll do
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Build protective controls into the code itself, keeping sensitive card data scope small and covering credentials, permissions, activity records and attack analysis.
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Manage cloud infrastructure as code, along with automated build and deployment pipelines, staged releases and rollback procedures.
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Ensure payment authorization, settlement and reconciliation logic is safe to retry, traceable and easy to recover.
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Set and monitor reliability targets, add instrumentation, prevent outages and write clear operational runbooks.
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Improve response times on the transaction path and reduce the cost of each transaction.
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Set architecture direction, write production code and take on-call responsibility for the systems you ship.
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Requirements
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What we're looking for
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Experience building backend systems that other engineers and teams rely on.
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Solid grasp of keeping operations correct when things fail, including repeat-safe requests, retries, distributed state and failure modes.
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Everyday safety habits: limiting access to what is needed, handling credentials with care, keeping activity records and anticipating how a system could be attacked.
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Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code.
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Proficiency in TypeScript or Python.
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Clear written communication about incidents, root causes and fixes.
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Availability to work roughly six days a week, Sunday through Friday.
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2 to 5 years of relevant experience.
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Bonus points
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Experience with AWS.
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Benefits
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Compensation and benefits
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Base salary: USD 140,000 to 300,000 per year
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Health, dental and vision coverage
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Location and work model
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San Francisco, California, United States
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On-site
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Roughly 6 days a week (Sunday through Friday), with flexibility on weekends
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Full-time