Backend Engineer

Layer Financial Technologies Inc

• $120K — $145K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience in strong software teams
  • Experience in building new products from scratch
  • Demonstrated growth in team leadership
  • Ability to think from first principles and customer needs simultaneously
  • Curiosity about technical and business challenges
  • Strong ownership mindset in product and team decisions
  • Effective navigation of competing priorities

Responsibilities

  • Build and develop a team and company culture
  • Lead and contribute to product decision-making
  • Foster teammate growth by leveraging individual strengths
  • Address technical and business problems with deep curiosity
  • Adapt to and navigate competing company goals effectively
  • Collaborate closely with other team members on projects
  • Drive ownership over product development from inception to launch

Benefits

  • Competitive seed-stage salary
  • Top of market equity
  • Employee friendly equity plan
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage
  • In-office lunch provided
Full Job Description
The Role

We want engineers who can build a team and a company, not just a best-in-class product. We believe that certainly takes broad technical competence across our tech stack, but it also takes harder to find abilities, such as...
  • Thinking forward from first principles and backwards from customer needs at the same time.
  • Curiosity about both technical and business problems.
  • Navigating competing priorities and tradeoffs using your own mental map of company goals.
  • A desire for ownership in product & team decisions.
  • Loving people and wanting to make your teammates around you better at their own strengths.

We think world class early-stage engineers often share some common background experience, such as:
  • 2+ years of experience on strong software teams
  • Experience with the highs and lows of building new products from scratch
  • A track record of growth in team leadership

That said, we deeply appreciate and admire people who take initiative to pursue problems & opportunities they care about, so we are always excited to meet folks who reach out even if they don't fit that exact profile.

Our Stack

We don't index on how familiar candidates are with our tech stack. That's one of the benefits of hiring excellent engineers: we're confident you'll get up to speed and we're confident the rest of the team can help you do it. That said, we want everyone to be excited about the environment and tool kit they'll have on day one.
  • API language: Kotlin
  • Embedded components: React
  • API framework: Ktor
  • Database: Postgres (RDS)
  • ORM: Exposed
  • Testing: Kotest/JUnit
  • CI/CD: Github Actions
  • Deployment: Containerized ECS service behind API Gateway
  • Monitoring/visibility/logging: Betterstack & Sentry


Benefits
  • Competitive seed-stage salary
  • Top of market equity
  • An employee friendly equity plan
  • Health/dental/vision
  • Lunch in-office

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