About this role
For its Backend Development team in New York, United States, Mesh is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer. The role sits in Backend Development, which shapes the kind of work involved. Working hours are spent in the New York office, not remotely. Experience at senior fits here, and the posting is written with that in mind. Everything else the employer shared, including how to apply, is in the full description below.
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Job Overview
Job description provided by Mesh.
Mesh, a payments company based in New York, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for its Payments team, which runs the core engine moving money for businesses worldwide. The role builds and owns high-scale, secure and resilient systems across Java backends and serverless NodeJS services on modern cloud infrastructure. Engineers collaborate with product managers to ship high-performance, resilient backend systems and APIs that power core payment flows. Responsibilities include architecting and building robust, customer-facing services end to end, using AI-assisted development to speed up design, coding and testing. The engineer owns their code in production, continuously improving, optimising and evolving the systems that drive the business. They take full accountability for designing, implementing, testing and deploying backend capabilities, with a focus on quality and velocity. Candidates need five or more years of professional software engineering experience with a strong emphasis on backend development, plus a solid understanding of distributed and scalable production systems. Experience with monitoring and troubleshooting live production applications is essential, along with relational and non-relational databases such as MySQL, Redis and DynamoDB. Comfort with AI coding tools is required, previous experience with Java, fintech or payments is a plus, and applicants should send a resume to the company email.
Original posting: https://meshpayments.com/careers/senior-backend-engineer/