Software Architecture - Sr Advisor I
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Job Title
Software Architecture - Sr Advisor I
Staff Software Engineer, Backend and PostgreSQL
Role Overview
Finxact is an innovative, enterprise-class, cloud-native banking platform and transaction-processing engine designed to support banks, fintech companies, and embedded-finance providers at scale.
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership in the design, development, and evolution of highly scalable backend services and platform capabilities.
This role combines hands-on software engineering with architecture and technical leadership across complex distributed systems. Our backend services are primarily developed in Go, but we welcome experienced engineers with strong expertise in another modern programming language who are interested in becoming proficient in Go.
What You Will Do
- Design, develop, and evolve scalable, resilient backend services and APIs.
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across complex software initiatives.
- Collaborate across engineering, architecture, product, and operations teams to define technical designs and implementation strategies.
- Design and optimize solutions using PostgreSQL and other relational database technologies for high-volume transactional workloads.
- Lead application and database modernization and migration initiatives while maintaining availability, performance, data integrity, and security.
- Design and operate cloud-native applications using containers and Kubernetes.
- Improve CI/CD, deployment automation, testing, observability, and production-readiness practices.
- Use AI-assisted development tools to improve design, implementation, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting while independently validating generated output.
- Troubleshoot complex application, API, database, and distributed-system issues.
- Mentor engineers, influence technical direction across teams, and help establish consistent engineering practices.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional software-engineering experience designing, developing, and supporting production systems.
- Strong experience developing backend systems in Go or another modern programming language, with the ability and willingness to become productive in Go.
- Significant experience with software architecture, technical design, and technical leadership across complex or distributed systems.
- Strong experience designing APIs and service-based architectures.
- Strong...