Figure AI
Helix AI Engineer, Backend
$200K–$400K
San Jose, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted May 28, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, CA
San Jose, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years building production backend systems at scale.
About the job
Build and operate backend services and cloud infrastructure for Figure’s consumer mobile application, including identity, payments, media delivery, notifications, and business dashboards.
What you'll do
- Design identity and KYC services, and build payments and billing infrastructure.
- Own media ingestion and delivery, cloud platform, and notification systems.
- Build dashboards and web interfaces for business visibility into tasks, supply, and quality.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building production backend systems at scale.
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including APIs, queues, storage, and event-driven architecture.
- Hands-on payments, billing, or fintech infrastructure experience, including systems moving real money for users.
- Hands-on infrastructure experience with AWS or GCP, Terraform or similar, containers, and CI/CD; proficiency in Go, Python, or similar.
Nice to have
- Marketplace or gig platform experience; fintech background.
- Experience with media storage and processing pipelines at scale, or as the first or only infrastructure owner on a small team.
Pay
$200,000 - $400,000 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, GCP, Terraform, Go, Python, CI/CD
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