At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and maintain robust backend services while collaborating with teams to deliver innovative solutions.
- Company: Join Sardine, a leader in fighting financial crime with a remote-first culture.
- Benefits: Generous compensation, flexible time off, health coverage, and stipends for wellness and learning.
- Other info: Remote work within Canada with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in fraud prevention while working with cutting-edge technologies.
- Qualifications: 7+ years in backend development, proficiency in Golang, and a customer-centric approach.
The predicted salary is between 118800 - 145200 $ per year.
Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations.
Our culture values performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn't have to miss your family dinner, your kid's school play, friends get-together, or doctor's appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule. We're a remote-first team spread across time zones, so no office to report to - work from wherever helps you do your best work.
Location: Remote - Canada
About the Role: As a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, constructing, and maintaining APIs, services, and systems across our engineering team. This multifaceted position involves developing new features on a large scale, refining internal tooling and processes, contributing to product and technical roadmaps, and assuming diverse responsibilities within the organization.
What you'll be doing:
- Design, create, and maintain robust, efficient, and reliable backend services to meet our platform's evolving needs.
- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to architect and implement new services from inception to delivery.
- Contribute to developing new features and capabilities that deliver substantial value to our customers.
- Work with various engineering and product teams to synchronize efforts and deliver cutting-edge solutions.
- Craft and maintain user-facing technical documentation, enhancing user understanding and facilitating seamless adoption of our services.
- Play a pivotal role in shaping our company's engineering culture, ensuring the maintenance of high engineering standards across the organization.
What you’ll need:
- 7+ years of proven experience as a Software Engineer specializing in web backend development.
- Proficiency in Golang is a significant advantage.
- Additional experience in data engineering is highly desirable.
- A track record of successfully delivering high-quality production services and systems.
- Customer-centric approach with a strong emphasis on empathy towards users.
- Relevant industry experience, particularly in banking or fintech, and domain knowledge in fraud prevention or compliance.
- Proficient in English - from casual chats to formal reports.
Technologies we use: TypeScript (React + node), Golang, Ruby, Bigtable, Postgres / PostgreSQL, GCP dataflow (apache beam), BigQuery, Python, Java, Terraform.
Benefits we offer:
- Generous compensation in cash and equity.
- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested.
- Flexible paid time off and Year-end break.
- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific.
- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific.
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door.
- One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
- Monthly meal stipend.
- Monthly social meet-up stipend.
- Annual health and wellness stipend.
- Annual Learning stipend.
Senior Software Engineer, Backend employer: Sardine
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