Titan · 7 hours ago
Principal Backend / Infrastructure Engineer – TypeScript
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$150K/yr - $300K/yr
6+ years expTitan is an award-winning wealth manager on a mission to democratize wealth management through innovative technology. The Principal Backend / Infrastructure Engineer will architect, build, and scale core systems for their financial platform, ensuring reliability and performance while mentoring junior engineers.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript
Improve and extend the infrastructure that enables trading, account management, transaction processing, and portfolio automation
Ensure high availability, performance, and security across backend systems powering millions of daily operations
Build and enhance internal tools, data pipelines, and system integrations
Extend our devOps/infrastructure to shape CI/CD, deployment automation, observability, monitoring, and incident response
Champion best practices for code quality, system design, testing, and documentation
Mentor junior engineers and drive architectural initiatives across the backend domain
Qualification
Required
6 + years of professional experience building backend systems in TypeScript or comparable languages (Node.js preferred)
Strong backend fundamentals: APIs, microservices, distributed systems, data stores, caching, messaging systems
Experience with database design (SQL & NoSQL), scaling patterns, performance optimization, and observability
Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure as code
Solid understanding of security practices for backend systems (authentication, authorization, data protection)
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
Preferred
Experience building financial or real-time services
Familiarity with automated portfolio, trading, or financial data systems
Previous ownership of backend infrastructure or mission-critical systems
Experience scaling apps used by tens of thousands of users with high throughput
Benefits
Competitive cash compensation
Well-above-market equity packages
Company
Titan
Titan is a modern wealth management platform that solves urgent money problems for ambitious individuals.
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$73MKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzGeneral CatalystY Combinator
2023-01-01Series Unknown
2021-07-20Series B· $58M
2021-02-16Series A· $12.5M
Leadership Team
Joe Percoco
Co-CEO & Co-Founder
Max Bernardy
Co-Founder
Recent News
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