Sequence
Senior Product Engineer (Backend) - NYC
$210K–$230K
New York City · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 27, 2026
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About the job
Build and scale backend systems for Sequence’s revenue platform, including AI-enabled financial workflows and reliable billing infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Design and build resilient backend systems for high-velocity event streams and revenue-critical workflows.
- Scale billing infrastructure for substantially higher throughput while balancing cost, performance, and reliability.
- Own product work end-to-end, from identifying customer needs through shipping and supporting production systems.
What they ask for
- Experience shipping production backend systems and a focus on reliability.
- Interest in distributed systems and resilient software.
- Clear communication, customer focus, and comfort with ambiguity and end-to-end ownership.
Nice to have
- Deep relational database expertise, including complex queries and performance.
Pay
$210,000 - $230,000 (base salary)
Tools
Kotlin, Http4k, Spring Boot, Exposed, Result4k, Postgres, BigQuery, Google Cloud Pub/Sub
AI focus
Build AI-powered approval workflows and an autonomous collections agent; the posting also describes agent-based contract intake that extracts customer and pricing information.
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