Staff Software Engineer

Staff Backend Engineer (Financial Systems)

📍 Fully Remote Across EU

💰 Up to €130,000

We're partnering with a high-growth, product-led SaaS platform to hire a Staff Backend Engineer to lead the build of a next-generation financial systems platform.

This is a high-impact, greenfield role where you'll define architecture, set engineering standards, and build a critical system from the ground up.

The Role

You'll take ownership of designing and delivering a core backend financial subsystem, focused on accuracy, scalability, and compliance.

Operating as a senior technical leader, you'll work closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to turn complex financial requirements into robust, production-grade systems.

This is a hands-on Staff IC role with significant influence over architecture, quality, and engineering practices.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading the architecture and development of a greenfield backend system
• Building secure, scalable, and highly reliable financial infrastructure
• Designing systems with a strong focus on data integrity, auditability, and correctness
• Driving engineering best practices across testing, observability, and CI/CD
• Collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Finance, and other teams
• Acting as a technical authority, influencing system design and standards
• Mentoring engineers and raising the bar across the wider team

What They're Looking For

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience, including time at Staff level or equivalent
• Strong expertise in backend development (e.g. Go or similar languages)
• Proven experience building and operating high-scale, production systems
• Strong system design skills with the ability to balance speed vs scalability
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD)
• Ability to influence teams and drive technical direction across domains

Nice to have:

• Experience with financial systems, accounting, or ledger-based products
• Exposure to high-integrity systems requiring compliance and auditability
• Experience working across polyglot environments

Why Join?

• True greenfield opportunity to build a critical financial platform from scratch
• High ownership and visibility as a senior technical leader
• Fully remote, internationally distributed engineering team
• Join a profitable, fast-scaling SaaS business operating at significant scale