Yellow Tree · 14 hours ago
Senior Back-End Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
6+ years expYellow Card is the largest and first licensed stablecoin-based infrastructure provider, operating in 20 African countries and the emerging markets. They are seeking a Senior Back-End Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services that power mission-critical financial workflows, ensuring systems are observable, resilient, and production-ready.
ConstructionConsultingProperty ManagementReal Estate
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services powering mission-critical financial workflows
Own features end-to-end: from design and implementation to monitoring and iteration
Build and evolve event-driven, serverless & Kubernetes microservices
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable solutions
Write clean, testable, and maintainable code with the future in mind
Participate actively in architecture discussions, code reviews, and design reviews
Ensure systems are observable, resilient, and production-ready
Uphold and improve engineering standards, patterns, and best practices
Qualification
Required
6+ years of professional experience as a Back-End Engineer (Senior-level / Tech Lead depth expected)
Strong hands-on experience with Domain Driven Development
Strong experience with Node.js and modern JavaScript/TypeScript
Solid hands-on experience with AWS (or equivalent cloud platforms - Google Cloud/Azure)
Proven experience building serverless & Kubernetes architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, etc.)
Experience designing and operating event-driven microservices
Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, async workflows, and distributed systems
Experience with testing strategies (unit, integration, contract tests)
Highly experienced in designing monitoring & observability systems
Preferred
Exposure to fintech, payments, and high-regulation systems
Basic understanding of blockchain or crypto transaction flows
Experience improving system observability, logging, and monitoring
Benefits
Access to resources, support, and autonomy to grow professionally.
Mental Health Support Services: Your mental well-being matters to us.
Competitive compensation and meaningful health coverage
All full-time employees are participants in our stock option plan.
Company
Yellow Tree
Yellow Tree is a Minneapolis-based real estate developer, contractor & property management firm dedicated to bringing new life to properties in the Twin Cities.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Bryan Walters
Co-Founder
Kirk Pennings
President
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