Senior Backend Engineer | On-Site | Seattle

Job description

**About us** Today’s financial system is built to favor those with money. Grid’s mission is to level that playing field by building financial products that help users better manage their financial future. The Grid app lets users access cash, build credit, spend money, optimize their taxes, and lots, lots more. Grid is a fast-growing team that’s deeply passionate about making a difference in the lives of millions. We’re solving huge problems and believe that every team member has a big role to play. **The role** We’re adding Backend Engineers to help build the foundations that power everything at Grid. You’ll work across product, core financial systems, infrastructure, and data, — working throughout the backend stack to power and improve our user experiences. From distributed systems processing millions of transactions to product facing components directly impacting the user experience, you’ll own critical components that scale with the company and directly impact how our products perform in the real world. If you enjoy building high-leverage systems from scratch, this role puts you at the center of it all. **The team** We're focused on serving our users above all else all while building a robust business. To this end, Grid's team members experience high levels of autonomy and ownership, and as a company we value curiosity, learning and growth. At Grid, you'll be surrounded by a team that is motivated, mission-driven and pragmatic. **The tech stack** Our backend platform runs on GCP with Go, protobufs, BigQuery, MySQL, and Spanner. We’ve built a wide range of homegrown systems that power everything from financial ledgers and payment processing to AI-driven workflows, web scraping, and real-time analytics. From day one, we’ve focused on clean, reliable foundations — giving us a platform that scales efficiently and enables fast, data-informed product development. ### Who You Are - **AI Native:** You are excited by the opportunity to explore and experiment with AI tooling in both development and operational applications - **Backend Systems Experience:** You have real experience building and operating production backend systems, ideally in Go on cloud infrastructure like GCP, and are comfortable owning services that must be reliable, scalable, and performant. - **Data-Driven Systems:** You have proven experience building and operating backend systems that are deeply informed by data, designing clean data models, instrumenting services with meaningful metrics, and using analytics to guide system and product decisions. - **Startup Person**: You seek high growth opportunities and are constantly learning about the world around you. You feel at home with dynamic decision making and an iterative approach. - **Autonomy and Initiative:** You have the ability to work independently and take ownership of projects, showcasing a proactive approach to identifying key leverage points for data products. - **Curiosity and Optimism**: You are constantly asking why the world around them works the way it does, and have the will to change it. - **Self Starter:** You have the confidence to prioritize work and delivery demonstrable results on a tight cadence. ### What You'll Do - **Systems Development:** You’ll build the core systems behind Grid’s products. From the services that directly control our users' experience to the transaction processing and financial ledgering systems that power everything we ship. You will have the opportunity to contribute to every layer of our product and core financial infrastructure. - **Shipping & Iteration:** You’ll own systems end to end — from design and implementation through deployment and production support — using our rapid CI/CD pipeline to ship improvements daily. We take a data-driven, iterative approach to building toward ambitious goals through well-engineered, incremental releases. - **Data Analysis:** Grid is deeply data-driven, with robust pipelines and analytics infrastructure across the platform. You’ll use SQL and analytical tools to evaluate product and system performance and help define what success looks like by shaping the metrics that guide our decisions. - **Event-Driven Distributed Systems:** Grid’s backend is built around Pub/Sub and asynchronous workflows. You’ll design and operate distributed, event-driven systems; reasoning about state, consistency, and failure modes to deliver reliable, seamless user experiences at scale.