Senior Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Company: Cardless, Inc.
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 7, 2025

Job Description:

About CardlessWe make it easy for businesses to create and scale financial products that customers love-starting with credit cards. We've launched 14 credit cards, including for Alibaba and Qatar Airways. Our strategy is simple: partner with businesses that strive for the best, not just the cheapest-with solutions that set a new standard. And reach those others can't, by solving challenges no one else will.We value curiosity, humility, and intensity -we move fast and take ownership. This is a place where a motivated, resourceful person can have an enormous impact on our trajectory. We're headquartered in San Francisco, and have raised about $90M in equity funding from top venture capital firms and angels.LocationThis role is based in San Francisco, where you'll work in-person out of our office near Dolores Park. For exceptional candidates we'll consider remote.Responsibilities

• You may be a generalist who's excited to work in many domains, or you may prefer to go deep in a few (e.g. helping us build an extensible rules engine or a highly reliable ledger). Besides writing & reviewing code, you'll plan work, write tech specs & review design docs, lead projects, collaborate across disciplines (e.g. with PM, design, compliance & partnerships), and mentor other engineers.What we're looking for
  • Experience designing backend services & systems and scaling them in production. This is more important to us than a specific # of years of experience, but we expect most engineers to need at least 3-5 years in the industry to gain this experience.
  • Experience leading projects, planning work, collaborating cross-functionally, and mentoring other engineers. A high-functioning, collaborative, and supportive environment is important to us, and you'll play an important role in fostering that.
  • Broad, high-level expertise across a modern application stack (covering e.g. databases, infrastructure, CI/CD, APIs, client apps, queueing, etc.).
  • Deep, low-level expertise in one or more backend domains (e.g. databases, scaling, or distributed systems), in the technology/platform of your choice.
  • Passion for both your craft (building things right) and achieving real-world impact (building the right things for our business & customers).Compensation & Benefits$165,000 - $220,000 a yearThis role has an annual starting salary range of $165,000-$220,000 + equity + benefits. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience, and specific work location. Meaningful Start-up equity 100% health, vision & dental primary coverage75% health, vision & dental dependent coverage Catered lunches $250/month Commuter benefit Parental leave--- Team building events & happy hours Flexible PTO with a minimum of 15 days off per year---Apple equipment 401k plan
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