Product Engineer - Backend

About the role

At Promise, we’re building technology that helps families stay afloat—offering flexible, affordable payment solutions that replace financial stress with stability. As a Product Engineer, you’ll design and scale the systems that make this mission possible. You’ll spend most of your time hands-on with code, working on microservices and distributed systems, while growing alongside teammates and shaping our engineering culture.

What You’ll Do

• Build with impact: Architect and implement scalable backend services that power our payments and financial products.
• Collaborate deeply: Work with infrastructure, product, and forward-deployed teams to deliver reliable end-to-end solutions.
• Code forward: Write and ship clean, maintainable, production-ready code.
• Keep systems strong: Monitor, debug, and optimize distributed systems to ensure reliability and high availability.
• Level up the team: Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of learning, ownership, and engineering excellence.

What Will Help You Succeed

• Experience: 3+ years developing production software with a focus on backend systems.
• Systems expertise: Passion for building and debugging large-scale distributed systems.
• Cloud fluency: Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms.
• Mindset: Curious, autonomous, and accountable—with a drive to own problems end-to-end.
• Bonus: Experience in fintech, payments, or government technology environments.

Who Thrives At Promise

You are energized by big, complex challenges and the opportunity to solve them. You want your work to have a real, measurable impact on people’s lives. You take ownership and run toward problems, not away from them. You value clear, candid, and constructive communication.

How We Support Our People

• Equity for All: All full-time employees receive stock options to share in our company’s success.
• 100% Paid Health Coverage: We cover 100% of base medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for employees and their dependents.
• Hybrid Work: We collaborate in the office at least four days a week to stay connected and aligned as a team.
• Flexible Time Off: Self-managed FTO and 12 paid holidays — we trust you to prioritize your time.