Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Privy, a company focused on user privacy and ownership, and build simple, flexible developer tools. We create software transforming complex systems into user-friendly tools, using modern cryptography to protect user accounts and assets. The engineering team at Privy values open-source work, transparency, and experimentation. We encourage big thinking and curiosity to build better tools for developers. This role requires 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production systems at scale, understanding of API development, experience with data models and database management, and excellent communication skills. Privy is part of Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
• Understanding of modern API development best practices and design
• Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment
• Growth mindset and a constant curiosity and fearlessness to dive into the unknown
• Ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code, but also be pragmatic about moving fast
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a production system at scale
• Develop modern APIs using best practices and design
• Build data models, manage database migrations and best practices, and configure infrastructure
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Write maintainable, well-tested, modular code
• Write clear technical documentation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in an API-based business and in payments, fintech, or crypto
• Written open-source developer tooling
• Published about your work (open source code, internal or external presentations, blog posts, etc.)
• Past experience working in authentication or security