Product Engineer (Software Engineer)

ABOUT THE ROLE This is a full-stack product engineering role at a Series A fintech startup building consumer financial tools — think cash advances, paycheck boosting, and credit building. You'll work closely with product, engineering, and business leaders to ship high-impact features that directly improve users' financial wellbeing. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build product features end-to-end, including domain models, business logic, and API integrations. - Drive incremental, data-driven releases toward ambitious product milestones. - Use SQL and analytics tools to evaluate product and system performance against robust data pipelines. - Test and debug complex state machines in an event-driven, pub/sub backend to ensure a seamless user experience. - Ship to production daily via a rapid CI/CD process, owning implementations end-to-end and responding to production incidents as needed. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 3+ years building backend features end-to-end for production systems. - Proficiency designing and consuming RESTful APIs, including authentication/authorization patterns and rate limiting. - Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar). - Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), including data modeling and query optimization. - Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control, automated testing, and code review processes. - Experience debugging complex state machines in event-driven systems. - Prior experience building consumer-facing products (not B2B only). - Strong computer science fundamentals — algorithms, data structures, and system design. - Excellent cross-functional communication skills, including the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders. - Nice to have: Experience with Go (Golang) deployed on GCP; background at early-stage or high-growth startups. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS - Salary: $120,000 – $200,000 USD annually. - Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in San Francisco, CA. This role is not remote.