Parker
Senior Software Engineer - Backend
$170K–$230K
NYC Head Office · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2025
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
About the job
Designs and scales backend systems, APIs, and data infrastructure for Parker’s financial platform, while guiding architecture and engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Design and scale backend services and APIs; lead architectural decisions for performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Partner with Product and Infrastructure teams on secure APIs and data models; improve system performance, reliability, and observability.
- Drive engineering practices through code reviews, mentorship, architectural guidance, and technical roadmap contributions.
What they ask for
- Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems in production.
- Strong proficiency with Node.js and Typescript, or comparable backend languages such as Go, Java, or Python.
- Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with GraphQL, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP), and CI/CD pipelines.
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech, payments, or e-commerce infrastructure; background in credit systems, ledgering, or transactional data modeling.
Pay
$170K – $230K (base salary)
Tools
Node.js, Typescript, Go, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes
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