Taekus · 2 days ago

Staff Backend Engineer - Rewards

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Lead engineering projects related to neobank functionality, credit card buildout, hotels, and more.

Collaborate with a world-class engineering team on various high-impact reward products.

Work remotely with a distributed team across different locations.

Participate in the development of cutting-edge financial services products.

Qualification

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PythonTechnical LeadershipStartup ExperienceDjangoAWSRedisPostgreSQLStreaming PipelinesApache KafkaSparkFlinkFraud DetectionGDS SystemsRouting AlgorithmsCredit Card PointsTravel HackingAirline Rewards Search EnginesProblem-SolvingAttention to Detail

Required

6+ years of engineering experience, most recently writing production-grade Python

3+ years of experience in a technical lead role setting technical direction.

Prior 0→1 experience at a hyper-growth startup (e.g. Superhuman, Glean, Scale AI, etc.)

Experience with Django, AWS, Redis, PostgreSQL

Experience building streaming pipelines from the ground up. Bonus points if you've used Apache Kafka, Spark, and Flink, or have experience with building fraud streaming pipelines.

Preferred

Experience with GDS systems, such as Amadeus or Sabre

Experience developing with routing algorithms, including (but not limited to) Hamiltonian paths, shortest paths, etc.

You’re into credit card points/churning/travel hacking and book yourself many flights with points — and you can play all those pesky airline rewards search engines like an instrument.