Imprint is reimagining co-branded credit cards and financial products to be smarter, more rewarding, and brand-first.
The company partners with brands like H-E-B, Turkish Airlines, Brooks Brothers, and Eddie Bauer to launch modern credit programs that enhance loyalty, unlock savings, and drive growth.
Imprint's platform combines advanced payments infrastructure, intelligent underwriting, and seamless user experience to help brands offer powerful financial products without becoming a bank.
The role involves architecting and leading the development of secure, reliable, and scalable backend systems.
The candidate will provide technical leadership and mentorship across multiple teams and projects.
Establishing and championing coding standards, architectural principles, and technical direction for the engineering organization is essential.
The position requires close collaboration with product, design, and engineering leadership to align technical strategy with business goals.
The candidate will drive continuous optimization of system performance, scalability, and reliability to support rapid growth and evolving business demands.
The role includes owning complex, high-impact projects and initiatives from architecture and strategic planning through successful deployment and ongoing optimization.
The candidate will drive the evolution of developer experience through advanced tooling, comprehensive observability frameworks, and platform reliability improvements.
Mentoring and developing engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and technical guidance is a key responsibility.
The candidate will contribute to the technical roadmap and identify opportunities for innovation.
Requirements:
Exceptional proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Java, Python, or similar languages is required.
Extensive experience architecting complex distributed systems with a deep understanding of advanced design patterns and architectural paradigms is necessary.
A proven track record of designing and delivering mission-critical systems that operate at massive scale with exceptional reliability is essential.
Advanced knowledge of sophisticated data structures, algorithms, and performance optimization techniques is required.
Deep expertise with cloud infrastructure platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and advanced CI/CD practices using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and infrastructure-as-code is necessary.
Exceptional proficiency in troubleshooting, debugging, and complex problem-solving abilities, with experience resolving critical production incidents, is required.
Exceptional communication, cross-functional collaboration, and technical leadership skills are essential.
Demonstrated experience driving technical decision-making and mentoring senior engineers is necessary.
A minimum of 8 years of professional software engineering experience is required.
Benefits:
The position offers competitive compensation and equity packages.
Employees will receive leading configured work computers of their choice.
Flexible paid time off is provided.
The company offers fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage.
Additional health coverage includes access to One Medical and the option to enroll in a Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
The company provides 16 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents.
There is an understanding that successful hybrid work requires flexibility and an appreciation for asynchronous work.
Employees have access to industry-leading technology across all business units, reflecting the company's philosophy of investing in resources that foster innovation, optimization, and productivity.
