About the Role
The role involves developing and maintaining backend systems that power large-scale financial distribution platforms, focusing on system reliability, data integrity, and long-term maintainability.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement robust backend services to handle high-volume transactions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver new features
- Improve system performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Write clean, testable code with comprehensive documentation
- Diagnose and resolve production issues in a timely manner
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency
- Contribute to architectural decisions and system design
- Maintain data accuracy and integrity across distributed systems
- Support integration with third-party financial and identity verification services
- Ensure compliance with security and privacy standards
- Optimize database queries and data storage strategies
- Develop automation tools to streamline deployment and monitoring
- Work with product teams to refine technical requirements
- Monitor system health and respond to alerts
- Contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity planning
- Evaluate and adopt new technologies that improve system capabilities
- Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices
- Maintain awareness of system dependencies and external service reliability
- Support audit and compliance reporting needs
- Ensure systems are accessible and usable in low-bandwidth environments
Compensation
Competitive salary with equity or bonus potential
Work Arrangement
Remote
Team
Cross-functional team focused on delivering reliable financial infrastructure
Impact
- Work directly on systems that distribute cash to people in need, improving speed and reliability of aid delivery
- Contribute to technology that supports transparency and accountability in humanitarian programs
Technology Stack
- Primary language: Python
- Cloud infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform
- Databases: PostgreSQL, BigQuery
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Terraform
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