Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Mesa, a company revolutionizing homeownership affordability, as a Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer. You will be instrumental in building our core products and owning our backend infrastructure. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop core payments infrastructure, mobile and web applications, and manage marketplace and rewards products. This hands-on role offers significant growth opportunities in a dynamic startup environment. You will shape products with top-tier financial services partners, contributing to a customer-first approach. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced settings and is passionate about building technology from the ground up.

Requirements

• 7+ years of backend software engineering experience building consumer applications with NodeJS, or similar framework
• Strong proficiency with Typescript is a must
• Proficiency or willingness to learn managing infrastructure with Terraform and DevOps best practices
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, handle ambiguity, and have strong product ownership mindset
• Must love dogs 🐶

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of our core products by contributing primarily to our backend
• Build and maintain Mesa's production and staging infrastructure and cloud strategy by introducing best practices with cloud-native technologies like RDS, S3, SQS
• Drive technical delivery - everything from architectural design to development to QA
• Participate in customer discovery efforts and initiatives as our beta users help us refine our product

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating with fintech SaaS products such as Plaid and Marqeta
• Experience in the payment systems, banking systems
• Experience in Expo, NestJS

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• 100% covered Health, Vision Dental & Carrot Fertility
• 401(k) plan
• Fully remote
• Regular team and company wide offsites
• Unlimited vacation policy