Staff Software Engineer, Backend

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