Software Engineer II, Backend

Dave is a financial app on a mission to build products that level the financial playing field. They are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join their Risk team, responsible for developing systems that validate member identity and support risk decisioning across their products.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain backend services that support risk signals, identity validation, and integrations across Dave’s product ecosystem
• Develop backend services using TypeScript and Node.js that power critical platform capabilities
• Write reliable, maintainable code and ship improvements incrementally through thoughtful pull requests and code reviews
• Improve system reliability by building strong automated tests and identifying potential failure points before they affect members
• Monitor and improve system performance while helping maintain production systems that operate at scale
• Partner with product managers and engineers to understand user journeys and translate them into durable backend solutions

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 2+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience building backend services using TypeScript, Node.js, or similar modern programming languages
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to design reliable and maintainable systems
• Experience collaborating with engineers and product partners to deliver production-ready solutions
• Familiarity with distributed systems and operating backend services in production environments
• Experience working with risk, fraud, or financial systems
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as GCP and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience designing observable systems with monitoring and logging
• Experience operating high-scale systems or business-critical services