Backend Engineer

The role

You will build complex financial infrastructure from scratch. This includes implementing payment flows, building tax calculation engines, and creating systems for international commerce.

What you will do

• Write high-quality, maintainable code
• Implement core payment and financial systems
• Build secure, scalable backend services
• Contribute to system architecture discussions
• Help establish engineering best practices
• Design and build robust payment processing flows
• Implement internal ledger and reconciliation systems
• Create merchant integration frameworks
• Develop automated monitoring and alerting
• Handle secure financial data processing

Required qualifications

• Fluency in a JVM-based language
• Track record of implementing complex backend systems
• Strong engineering fundamentals and coding practices

Nice to have

• preferably Kotlin
• experience building financial, payments, tax, or compliance systems
• familiarity with e-commerce platforms

Benefits

• Equity and salary in a well-funded startup
• Ability to own your work and move fast
• Direct access to the founding team
• A global mission with real impact
• Low politics, high output
• A culture of builders, not talkers

About the company

Outpost is building the AI global trade engine. The team includes leaders from Revolut, Airwallex, Adyen and Wayflyer.