Sr. Software Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Build, ship, and operate backend services in Go for production use cases with real reliability and correctness requirements
• ▹Design systems that process high-volume, event-driven data with clear audit trails and reproducible behavior
• ▹Extend and improve existing platform capabilities without adding unnecessary complexity
• ▹Partner closely with Product and Engineering to turn ambiguous financial-services problems into concrete technical solutions
• ▹Build customer-facing AI features applying LLMs and ML models to real compliance problems, with attention to evaluation, latency, cost, and failure handling
• ▹Help raise engineering quality through strong technical judgment, mentoring, and pragmatic decision-making

Requirements

• ▹6+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
• ▹Proven experience building and operating production backend systems in Go
• ▹Solid hands-on experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database in production
• ▹Experience designing or maintaining event-driven or data-intensive systems
• ▹Experience working on systems where correctness, auditability, and reproducibility matter
• ▹Experience shipping at least one customer-facing AI feature to production, or directly owning a production AI workflow with real users and measurable outcomes
• ▹Comfort working on a small team with broad ownership and high expectations

Nice to have

• ▹Experience in fintech, banking, compliance, risk, payments, or BaaS
• ▹Experience with analytical data stores such as BigQuery, ClickHouse, or Snowflake
• ▹Familiarity with dbt, Ent, Connect RPC, Protocol Buffers, Pulumi-managed GKE deployments, GitLab APIs, or Google Cloud APIs
• ▹Experience on a fast-moving early-stage engineering team
• ▹Based in, or open to spending regular time in, the San Francisco Bay Area

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for US and Canadian employees and dependents
• ▹Employer contribution to HSA for US employees
• ▹Annual HCSA and generous extended health care coverage for Canadian employees and dependents
• ▹401(k) for US employees and RRSP for Canadian employees
• ▹Mental health resources available for all employees
• ▹Unlimited paid time off
• ▹Generous paid new parent leave program
• ▹Home office setup stipend
• ▹Stock options program for all employees
• ▹Growth potential and opportunity to have a significant impact at an early stage

About the company

Synctera is a Banking-as-a-Service platform combining APIs, compliance support, and bank partnerships in one place so fintech companies can build, launch, and scale bank accounts, debit and charge cards, lending, and more.