Tilt is transforming the credit landscape with innovative mobile-first products and machine learning-powered credit models. They are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to shape the technical direction of their solutions, lead product initiatives, and mentor other engineers while optimizing engineering processes.
Responsibilities:
- Identify opportunities to foster optimal product direction, collaborate closely with business stakeholders to streamline and simplify designs, and proactively identify areas of risk and tradeoffs that can be enhanced
- Ownership of technical initiatives, being accountable for the initiative's outcome, managing and executing the project, designing the solution and defining its requirements, reporting on the initiative's progress, and coordinating resources
- Perform as a lead technical interviewer
- Lead technical reviewer of Tilt Engineering blog posts
- Mentor Engineers up to and including Senior levels
- Lead SEV1 and lower incident response through to resolution
- Lead engineering of large scale and complex product initiatives
- Culture leader across the engineering organization, delivery team and platform team
Requirements:
- 7+ years developing web APIs within .NET (C#)
- Experience building resilient financial systems with state machine logic and complex lifecycles
- Ability to balance immediate business needs with long-term architectural considerations
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, queue-based architectures, and data-intensive applications
- Experience scaling consumer-facing products with significant transaction volumes
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product, risk, and operational teams
- Comfort making decisions with incomplete information and adapting as new data emerges
- Skill in mentoring and elevating the capabilities of other engineers
- Able to effectively leverage AI-powered development tools (e.g., Cursor, Augment, Factory) to enhance productivity, code quality, and collaboration