Senior Backend Engineer (Growth & Monetization) - Remote

Overview

Puzzle is revolutionizing accounting software by creating modern, user-friendly solutions that give companies better control over their finances. Our platform connects with popular fintech tools to provide real-time financial insights to founders and finance teams.

In order to help us accomplish our ambitious goals we are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Growth & Monetization team. The ideal candidate brings deep backend engineering expertise, with particular strength in API design, data processing, and building secure, high-performance systems. You'll have the opportunity to tackle complex technical challenges while directly impacting our platform's growth and revenue capabilities.

This is your opportunity to join a well-funded startup led by an accomplished fintech founder. Join us remotely from anywhere in the US or Canada as we embark on this exciting journey.

In Short

• Design and implement backend services that power our revenue analytics and billing systems.
• Build robust, high-performance APIs to interact with our platform, ensuring scalability, security, and ease of integration (REST).
• Develop scalable data pipelines for real-time financial reporting and automated reconciliation.
• Create robust backend systems for subscription management and usage-based pricing.
• Build infrastructure for measuring and optimizing customer acquisition and retention.
• Architect event-driven systems for real-time financial reporting and forecasting.
• Create backend infrastructure for A/B testing and growth experiments.
• Ensure data consistency and system reliability across our financial platform.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with agile software development methodologies.
• Strong proficiency in modern programming languages like Typescript, as well as backend frameworks (Flask, FastAPI, Django).
• Extensive experience designing and implementing REST APIs.
• Strong experience with database design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics.
• Track record of building scalable backend systems that handle large amounts of sensitive data.
• Understanding of system design, microservices architecture, and API security.

Benefits

• Data engineering, data science or data analytics experience a big plus.
• Experience with various data analysis and ETL tools.
• Experience with streaming data processing (Kafka, Kinesis).
• Knowledge of financial reporting and accounting principles.
• GraphQL experience.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP).
• Prior fintech or startup experience.