Software Backend Engineer
Sardine provides a platform for fraud prevention, KYC/AML compliance, transaction monitoring, and bot detection.
Investors
About Sardine
Sardine offers a comprehensive suite of products for fraud prevention and compliance, including customer due diligence, risk scoring, investigations, and case management. It utilizes device intelligence, behavior biometrics, identity signals, and transaction data to provide precise risk scores and prevent financial crime.
Skills
About the Role
You will design, construct, and maintain backend APIs, services, and systems. You will develop new large-scale features, refine internal tooling and processes, and contribute to product and technical roadmaps. You will build highly available APIs and data pipelines, write user-facing technical documentation, collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, and uphold high engineering standards across the organization.
Requirements
- 7+ years of proven experience as a Software Engineer specializing in web backend development
- Proficiency in Golang is a significant advantage
- Additional experience in data engineering is highly desirable
- A track record of successfully delivering high-quality production services and systems
- Customer-centric approach with a strong emphasis on empathy towards users
- Relevant industry experience, particularly in banking or fintech, and domain knowledge in fraud prevention or compliance
- Proficient in English
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain robust backend services
- Build and operate highly available APIs and data pipelines
- Collaborate with stakeholders to architect and implement new services
- Develop new features and capabilities
- Coordinate with engineering and product teams to align delivery
- Write and maintain user-facing technical documentation
- Promote and uphold high engineering standards
Benefits
- Equity and early exercise for all options including pre-vested
- Remote-first work from anywhere
- Flexible paid time off and year-end break
- Health insurance dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents (US and Canada specific)
- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP (US and Canada specific)
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door
- One-time home office setup stipend
- Monthly meal stipend
- Monthly social meet-up stipend
- Annual health and wellness stipend
- Annual learning stipend