Staff Backend Engineer, Money Movement

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Austria.

📋 Description

• Lead the development of a greenfield project and take ownership of the architecture and technical vision for the V1 Trust Accounting product.

• Design and implement backend services that are secure, scalable, and auditable.

• Set up quality assurance measures, comprehensive testing, and CI/CD integration.

• Promote best practices regarding system design, observability, security, quality, resilience, and financial accuracy.

• Collaborate with teams from product, design, finance, and legal departments.

• Offer technical insights to enhance transparency and accountability.

• Mentor fellow engineers through code reviews, architectural advice, and collaborative coding sessions.

• Influence architecture, processes, technical direction, and project delivery as a key founding team member.

• Create a dependable, high-throughput, low-error Trust Accounting subsystem that seamlessly integrates with the Hostaway platform.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in software engineering.

• At least 2 years of experience working at a Staff Engineer level or equivalent.

• Strong proficiency in a backend programming language suitable for developing production-grade services.

• Experience in building, launching, and maintaining critical backend systems that serve real users at scale.

• Knowledge of reliability, observability, and potential failure modes in systems.

• Ability to design systems that start simply and evolve effectively over time.

• Experience in promoting the adoption of platforms, patterns, or standards across teams.

• Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and managing services in a production environment.

• A curious and adaptable mindset to work with code across various technologies.

• Nice to have: knowledge of financial systems, accounting principles, or ledger products.

• Nice to have: hands-on experience with Golang in a production setting.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary based on market rates applicable in the applicant's country.

• Opportunity to work 100% remotely from anywhere within your country of residence.

• Attractive stock options.

• Opportunities for professional growth, learning, and development.

• Possibilities for career advancement.

• Paid annual leave in accordance with country-specific norms or contract stipulations.

• Country-specific benefits such as health insurance and pensions where customary.

• A vibrant international team culture.

• A global company with team members located in over 40 countries.