About the role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with 2-5 years of experience to help rebuild and scale Grid's cash advance platform from a scrappy prototype into a system capable of processing hundreds of millions in originations. You'll be a generalist who can take a business outcome and drive the technology end-to-end, working across distributed systems, financial infrastructure, data pipelines, and internal tooling.
What will you be doing?
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Rebuilding core backend systems (ledger, transaction processing, payment integrations) to support 5-10x growth in advance originations
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Building high-reliability, high-scale collection systems that make targeted transactions across thousands of small-cap advances daily
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Ingesting and processing massive volumes of customer banking data from partners to power underwriting and collection decisions
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Using SQL and data analytics to drive engineering decisions, monitor system performance, and validate business outcomes
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Designing and operating event-driven distributed systems with Pub/Sub and asynchronous workflows
Key Requirements
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Demonstrated ownership of solving a real problem with technology — you can point to a specific business outcome you drove, not just features you contributed to
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Startup or high-growth company experience (Series A/B preferred) — must be comfortable with ambiguity and operating without heavy direction
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Strong backend systems experience (distributed systems, data-heavy architectures) — at least half of your career should be backend-focused
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Data-driven mindset — able to write SQL, build analyses, and use metrics to guide decisions in a B2C fintech environment
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Must be on-site full-time in Seattle, WA
