Senior / Staff Backend Engineer (API) – Economy

Accountabilities

• Design, implement, and operate scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript for high-volume economic and transactional workloads.
• Build and evolve infrastructure supporting subscriptions, marketplaces, digital content, wallets, inventories, ownership models, entitlements, and creator payouts.
• Ensure transactional integrity, reconciliation accuracy, auditability, and reporting integrity across economic systems.
• Design reliable representations of economic events and establish traceability across payment transactions, reporting systems, and downstream services.
• Develop and maintain integrations with payment providers, fintech platforms, and other external partners.
• Build systems that support both first-party and creator-driven digital content and monetization models.
• Enable subscription, marketplace, and economic analytics by creating reliable data flows and platform capabilities.
• Contribute to fraud detection and prevention systems while maintaining appropriate controls around sensitive financial and user data.
• Lead refactoring initiatives that improve maintainability, performance, scalability, and the long-term evolution of complex codebases.
• Participate in architectural discussions and help establish the technical direction of the broader economy platform.
• Own services end-to-end, including development, deployment, monitoring, observability, incident response, and ongoing operational improvements.
• Improve CI/CD reliability, release safety, infrastructure practices, and production resilience within containerized environments.
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code initiatives and strengthen monitoring, alerting, and observability across critical services.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Finance, Trust & Safety, Infrastructure, and other engineering teams to deliver cross-functional initiatives.
• Identify systemic technical risks and drive preventative improvements before they become operational or customer-facing issues.
• Mentor engineers, promote strong engineering practices, and contribute to raising technical standards across the organization.
• Occasionally respond to critical production issues and help restore reliable service during high-impact incidents.
• At Staff level, architect cross-team economic platform primitives such as entitlement models, payment flows, reconciliation frameworks, and event contracts.
• At Staff level, lead strategic architecture initiatives spanning multiple services, teams, and high-stakes external integrations while balancing scalability, compliance, and product velocity.

Requirements

• Have at least 5 years of backend engineering experience within SaaS, fintech, marketplaces, online platforms, or similarly complex technology environments.
• Demonstrate deep proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript and strong experience designing production-grade backend services.
• Have strong experience working with both relational and non-relational databases, including technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis.
• Be experienced with message queues, caching strategies, WebSocket systems, and other technologies used in distributed or high-throughput environments.
• Have proven experience building and maintaining external integrations, particularly with payment vendors, fintech platforms, or other transactional systems.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of performance profiling, optimization tradeoffs, observability, and operational resilience.
• Have experience working with PCI DSS, GDPR, PII requirements, or comparable security, privacy, and compliance frameworks.
• Bring experience building subscription engines, marketplaces, accounting systems, invoicing workflows, payment systems, or other high-integrity transactional products.
• Be familiar with AWS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Be comfortable working across both experimental initiatives and well-defined requirements while navigating ambiguity effectively.
• Have experience contributing to complex, evolving codebases and making thoughtful architectural decisions within established systems.
• Demonstrate strong ownership and the ability to take services from design through production operation.
• Be proactive, independent, collaborative, and comfortable making decisions while working with distributed teams.
• Bring strong communication skills and a low-ego approach to technical collaboration, mentoring, and cross-team decision-making.
• Demonstrate empathy toward creators and end users and remain calm and clear-headed during high-traffic periods or critical incidents.
• For Staff-level consideration, bring credible experience designing and operating financial or high-integrity transactional systems at scale.
• For Staff-level consideration, demonstrate experience defining technical strategy, leading architecture initiatives across teams, and influencing organization-wide engineering decisions.
• Experience with event-driven or high-throughput transactional systems is a strong advantage.
• Experience integrating with payment ecosystems such as Steam, Oculus, Apple, or Google Play is a plus.
• Experience leading large-scale refactors or architectural migrations is beneficial.
• Experience building internal operational tooling or creator-facing systems is an advantage.
• Full-stack development experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with creator economies or immersive social platforms is beneficial.

Benefits

• 100% remote work with the ability to work from anywhere.
• Flexible working hours with designated periods for team collaboration.
• Health benefits.
• 401(k) for eligible US employees.
• Stock options.
• Generous paid holiday schedule.
• Unlimited and flexible vacation time.
• Paid parental leave.
• Opportunity to work on high-impact infrastructure supporting a global creator ecosystem.
• Exposure to complex technical challenges involving payments, marketplaces, subscriptions, digital ownership, and large-scale distributed systems.
• Opportunity to influence technical strategy and architecture, particularly at Staff level.