Staff Software Engineer, Backend

The Opportunity

Drive architecture and implementation of critical financial systems: from transaction authorization and ledger accounting, to credit decisioning, to rewards engines and payment processing.

Shape net-new products from ideation through delivery: as Imprint expands into new financial products and a deeper rewards platform, you'll define technical approaches for systems that don't exist yet while evolving the ones that do.

Define foundational platform direction: set the technical vision for shared services, API infrastructure, and developer tooling that make the entire engineering team faster and more reliable.

Leverage AI across the stack: from prototyping to testing to production code, learning how to leverage AI tools is a core consideration for how we work.

Drive alignment across a wide cross-functional surface: product, design, infrastructure, compliance, solutions engineering, and brand partners.

Your Profile

• 10+ years of experience building production backend systems, operating in the details and driving strong technical outcomes
• You've architected and shipped systems that handle real money, real users, or real-time decisions, and you've made the teams around you better in the process
• You operate fluidly across staff archetypes depending on context — tech lead, architect, solver — adapting your approach to what the team and problem need
• You model the culture you want to see: psychological safety, intellectual honesty, and high standards for craft
• You communicate clearly at every level, from pairing on implementation details to presenting technical strategy to leadership
• Proficiency in Go (our primary backend language), or a similar language with willingness to ramp quickly
• You have strong experience with data consistency and transactional integrity across distributed systems
• You have strong experience with relational databases: schema design, migrations, and query performance tuning
• You drive technical alignment across product managers, business stakeholders, and engineers of all levels
• You have experience using AI tools (code assistants, MCP servers, agentic workflows) to accelerate development, or genuine enthusiasm to adopt them
• Startup experience is a plus

Stack

• Go
• MySQL
• DynamoDB
• Temporal
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• AWS
• Github Actions
• Datadog
• Statsig

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Leading configured work computers of your choice
• Flexible paid time off
• Full coverage, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
• Additional health coverage includes access to One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA
• 20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
• Access to industry-leading technology across all of our business units, stemming from our philosophy that we should invest in resources for our team that foster innovation, optimization, and productivity