Software Engineer - Backend

The role

You will design and scale foundational systems to keep the platform fast, reliable, and secure. You will work on architecting APIs, shaping data models, and optimizing infrastructure for performance and growth.

What you will do

• Design and scale foundational systems
• Architect APIs
• Shape data models
• Optimize infrastructure for performance and growth
• Collaborate across product and infrastructure teams

Required qualifications

• Minimum of four years of experience with modern web technologies such as: Git, Node.js, GraphQL, React, Web API’s, Docker, Databases, Kubernetes, Microservices, etc.
• Interest in building products meant to be used by real users
• Ability to work closely with customers and intuitively make real product decisions
• Proven abilities in developing your own scalable, products/applications from scratch
• Strong ability to communicate in English

Nice to have

• Experience working within payments or at a fintech company/on a fintech project
• Experience and subject matter expertise in the e-commerce industry
• Interest/contributions to open source software

About the company

Parker is a Series B fintech that provides virtual corporate cards and profitability-focused software tooling for eCommerce merchants. The company has raised over $180M in equity and debt from investors including Valar Ventures and Y Combinator.