Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Thrive

Description:

• Join the Tilt team as a Senior Backend Engineer for the Line of Credit (Thrive) platform.
• Play a pivotal role in expanding the Line of Credit platform, launching new financial products, and optimizing existing ones.
• Report to the Engineering Manager and collaborate with senior/staff engineers and cross-functional partners.
• Architect, build, and enhance backend services powering the Thrive Line of Credit and future products.
• Expand the platform to support multiple financial products and underlying instruments.
• Strengthen fraud detection and prevention systems.
• Deliver customer-facing features and internal tools to ensure reliability, performance, and scale.
• Collaborate with product, credit/finance, compliance, support, and analytics teams.
• Contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, and roadmap planning.
• Drive continuous improvement in code quality, security, and operational excellence.
• Tilt is a remote-first company with a minimum of two company offsite travels per year.

Requirements:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and coding skills are required.
• Experience building and maintaining distributed systems or data-intensive applications is necessary.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and modern backend frameworks is expected.
• A proven track record of shipping features for consumer-facing products is essential.
• Ability to translate product requirements into robust technical solutions is required.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills are necessary.
• Self-sufficiency in managing tasks and sharing progress is expected.
• Nice-to-haves include previous fintech or credit/lending platform experience and exposure to fraud prevention or risk systems.

Benefits:

• The Tilt team collaborates virtually across 14 countries and 12 time zones, with a WFH office reimbursement provided.
• Competitive compensation packages and generous equity are offered, reflecting the company's focus on potential.
• Flexible health plans at every premium level are available, along with substantial subsidies that meet global standards.
• Employees can expect direct exposure to the leadership team, ensuring that good ideas travel quickly.
• Paid global onsites are organized twice yearly for team bonding experiences, such as shared meals or kayaking adventures.
• Growth opportunities are recognized based on contributions rather than rigid promotion timelines.