Remote Backend Engineer

at Credit Key

Posted 2 days ago 5 applied

Description:

  • Credit Key is the leading provider of flexible, buy now pay later payments for B2B transactions, helping organizations offer their business customers greater access to capital, faster approvals, and extended payment terms using embedded financing.
  • The company values a small, experienced, and collaborative team of developers who prioritize learning, experimentation, and developer happiness.
  • As a Backend Engineer, you will thrive at the intersection of building, running, and improving complex systems, balancing pragmatism with craft, and taking pride in enhancing code, services, and architecture.
  • You will be responsible for translating business requirements into maintainable, scalable code, owning services end-to-end, experimenting and iterating to improve systems, making architecture decisions, and reviewing code with constructive feedback.
  • The role involves designing and implementing backend systems, APIs, and features, collaborating with product, engineering, and operations teams, and sharing knowledge to raise the quality bar across the team.

Requirements:

  • You must have 5+ years of experience building complex backend systems.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, or similar is required.
  • Strong programming skills in more than one language are essential.
  • Solid Git fundamentals are necessary for this position.
  • Expertise in SQL and/or NoSQL schema design and complex queries is required.
  • Experience in designing RESTful APIs is a must.
  • You should have operational experience in deploying and maintaining services, monitoring, cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.

Benefits:

  • The position offers competitive compensation along with equity.
  • You will receive great healthcare benefits.
  • Paid time off (PTO) is included.
  • A 401k match is provided.
  • The role is 100% remote with a flexible work schedule and location.
  • You will be part of a supportive, low ego, and highly collaborative team environment.
  • A work from home stipend is also available.