Backend Engineer

Solomon Page is a specialty niche provider of staffing and executive search solutions. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable systems that power payments and financial workflows, collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver secure and high-performance solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build multi-layered permission and role-based access systems with strong policy enforcement and consensus mechanisms
• Develop automated remediation and exception management engines, including support for complex fund flows
• Build and optimize high-performance search systems with sub-millisecond latency as a key performance goal
• Architect and implement highly concurrent, robust, and self-healing batch processing systems
• Design and maintain distributed backend systems for payments, money movement, and workflow orchestration
• Contribute to platformization efforts, creating reusable services and shared infrastructure
• Write high-quality, well-tested, and maintainable code that meets customer and regulatory requirements
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers on small to medium-sized teams

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems
• Strong backend engineering experience, ideally in payments, financial systems, or money movement
• Experience with platform engineering and building reusable services at scale
• Proven experience serving as a senior engineer on a small to medium-sized team
• Deep understanding of concurrency, fault tolerance, and system reliability
• Passion for building secure, scalable financial infrastructure
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field