Product Engineer
About our client
Our client is a high-growth fintech company focused on helping consumers better manage and optimize their financial lives. Their platform delivers modern, intuitive financial tools that enable users to improve cash flow, increase savings opportunities, and make smarter financial decisions.
The company operates in a fast-moving product environment where engineers work closely with product and leadership to build scalable, consumer-grade software. Their culture values ownership, speed, and pragmatic problem solving, with a strong emphasis on delivering meaningful user impact.
About the role
Our client is seeking a Product Engineer (Tax & Banking) with strong backend experience who enjoys building scalable product features end-to-end. This individual will operate as a product-minded engineer who can move fluidly across backend systems, APIs, and product surfaces.
You will own meaningful product functionality from ideation through production, working closely with Product Management and Engineering leadership to build reliable, scalable, and intuitive financial products. The role involves working across distributed systems spanning web, mobile, AI-powered components, and backend infrastructure.
This is an opportunity to join an early-stage, high-growth environment where engineers contribute directly to product direction and ship code frequently through mature CI/CD practices.
What you will do
- Build end-to-end product features including domain models, business logic, and API integrations across tax and banking functionality
- Own orchestration layers connecting backend services with mobile, web, and AI-driven components
- Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineering leadership to deliver seamless and scalable user experiences
- Develop backend services using Golang in a cloud environment, ensuring high reliability and uptime
- Lead projects from ideation through production deployment using modern CI/CD pipelines
- Debug and optimize complex event-driven systems to improve performance, scalability, and stability
Required Experience
Seniority
Required
- 2–5 years of experience in a full stack or backend-leaning engineering role
Work Experience
Required
- Experience at a high-growth startup that scaled through Series A to C phase
- Experience owning product end-to-end, not just executing on a spec
Nice to Have
- Fintech or other complex domain experience (financial services, insurance, health)
Education
Nice to Have
- CS or technical degree from a top-tier university
Hard Skills
Required
- Strong proficiency in Golang or JavaScript/TypeScript
- Backend-leaning engineer with enough web layer experience to operate across the stack (approximately 70/30 backend focus)
- Experience building scalable APIs and working with distributed systems
- Experience working in CI/CD environments and shipping production code frequently
Nice to Have
- Exposure to AI, prompt engineering, or agent-based systems
Miscellaneous
Required
- Ability to work onsite 5 days per week in either San Francisco or Seattle
Traits to avoid
- Long tenure exclusively at large, highly bureaucratic technology companies without startup experience
