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Staff Backend Engineer Financial Ledger - Jobgether
Backend Engineer
Senior backend engineer leading the design and operation of a high‑throughput financial ledger service for a travel‑tech SaaS, ensuring accurate revenue recognition, payments processing, and profit calculation using microservices, AWS, and event‑driven technologies.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, and maintain a highly available, low‑latency financial ledger microservice handling revenue recognition, payment settlement, and profit calculations.
- Design and implement event‑driven pipelines using Kafka (or similar) to ensure real‑time consistency across distributed components.
- Collaborate with product, data, and security teams to define data models, enforce compliance, and guarantee financial accuracy.
- Drive performance optimization, scaling strategies, and cost‑effective deployment on AWS (ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda).
- Mentor engineering peers, establish best practices, and lead code reviews for robust, test‑driven development.
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend development experience, with deep expertise in Python and/or Go.
- Proven track record building and operating microservice‑based, event‑driven systems at scale.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases (SQL) and data consistency patterns in distributed environments.
- Hands‑on experience with AWS services, container orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent problem‑solving skills, ability to own end‑to‑end product features, and a passion for financial accuracy.
Skills
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