Backend Engineer

Job description

At Lendbuzz, we believe financial opportunity should be more personalized and fair. We develop innovative technologies that provide underserved and overlooked borrowers with better access to credit. From our employees to our dealers, partners, and borrowers, we’ve built a company and a culture around a resolute belief in the promise and power of diversity. We value independent and critical thinking. We are looking for an experienced, passionate Backend Engineer to join our growing TLV R&D location. You'll be joining the backend group to help us expand our backend system and add new features to the company's core product. As a Backend Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in driving the backend architecture and technical strategies that underpin our success. This is a great Opportunity to make a significant impact by driving the technical direction of a high-growth company. ### Responsibilities - Build backend system from the ground up. - Design and collaborate with the engineering team to build architecture and system design for new products. - Build internal products and integrate with external API’s. - Play a role in building, expanding, testing and releasing of a product helping thousands happy customers. - **Leverage AI coding assistants to boost productivity, while maintaining strict code quality, security, and critical review standards.** ### Qualifications: - **Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (Top-tier university degree with a GPA of 90+ / Graduated with honors is a strong plus).** - **1-3 years of hands-on experience in backend development.** - Strong programming skills, with expertise in **Python**. - Deep understanding and proven experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or equivalent). - Experience designing and integrating with APIs (RESTful services). - Knowledge in testing methodologies - **Tech-savvy and adaptable: Experience or a strong desire to incorporate AI dev tools into your daily workflow, combined with the critical thinking needed to review and validate AI-generated code.** - Independent, proactive, with great interpersonal skills. ###### This is a great Opportunity to make a significant impact by driving the technical direction of a high-growth company. We embrace modern development practices. Our engineering team actively leverages Agentic AI tools and AI-assisted IDEs to enhance our daily workflows, accelerate coding, and focus on solving complex architectural challenges. ### Nice-to-Have: - Previous experience in Fintech, billing, or payment systems. - Experience working with **microservices** architecture. - Familiarity with **AWS**.