Senior Backend Engineer - Experience squad

The role

A senior engineer will own specific domains end to end, setting technical direction and ensuring service health. You will lead cross-squad projects, design scalable systems, and work closely with product, operations, and compliance teams.

What you will do

• Own part of domains end to end including technical direction and service health
• Lead cross squad projects by breaking down product asks and sequencing work
• Design systems that scale and degrade gracefully using idempotency and retries
• Raise the bar on quality and operational discipline through observability and SLOs
• Work close to product, design, and data teams to define what should be built
• Partner with operations, CX, and compliance teams
• Help bring domains to new markets as the company expands

Required qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems
• Impact-driven and product-minded
• Project management and leadership skills
• Confidence owning systems end to end from design through production and on-call
• Familiarity with Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Kubernetes
• Strong communication across teams

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech

About the company

Thndr aims to democratize access to investing through smart tech and human-centric design. The company provides simple access to preserve and grow wealth via a digital investing platform.