Staff Backend Engineer - NIRA

The role

You will lead strategy, design, and delivery for a core part of the NIRA platform. You will set technical direction, drive complex initiatives, and mentor engineers.

What you will do

• Lead strategy, design, and delivery for a core part of NIRA's platform
• Spot strategic needs and surface risks
• Take large, high-stakes projects from design to ship
• Push adoption of tools like Claude, Cursor, and Augment
• Mentor engineers up to Senior level
• Own SEV1 and lower incident response through to resolution
• Align with Principal Engineering and peers across NIRA, Cashalo, and US teams
• Shape product direction through technical tradeoffs
• Cut complexity out of designs

Required qualifications

• 9+ years building web APIs, ideally in Java and Spring Boot
• Deep experience with financial systems: state machines, complex lifecycles
• Strong grasp of distributed systems and queue-based architectures
• Proven track record scaling consumer products at high transaction volume
• End-to-end ownership: design, execution, and reporting on your own initiatives
• Comfortable deciding fast with incomplete information
• A mentor who actively raises the bar for engineers around you
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI dev tools
• Bias for simplicity over clever abstractions

Benefits

• WFH office reimbursement
• Competitive compensation packages
• Generous equity
• Flexible health plans at every premium level
• Substantial subsidies that stand up to global standards
• Direct exposure to our leadership team
• Paid global onsites twice yearly

About the company

Tilt uses mobile-first products and machine learning-powered credit models to create a new credit system. The team collaborates across 14 countries and 12 time zones.