Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Synctera is powering the future of FinTech by helping companies create new revenue streams with embedded banking products. They are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to build core platform capabilities in Go and automate financial compliance and banking operations at scale.
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 that apply LLMs and ML models to real compliance problems, with attention to evaluation, latency, cost, and failure handling in production
- Help raise engineering quality through strong technical judgment, mentoring, and pragmatic decision-making
Skills
- 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 for technical judgment
- 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
- Preference for being based in, or open to spending regular time in, the San Francisco Bay Area for in-person collaboration
Benefits
- 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 of our company's journey
- Working alongside a skilled and passionate team
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