ELX-006 Full-Stack/Back-End Integration Software Engineer (FinTech)
Toronto or San Francisco
Our client is the world's leading immersive "shoppertainment" platform with shoppable video, live streaming commerce, and monetization capabilities powering over 600 direct-to-consumer brands, retailers and media publishers worldwide. Our client enables its customers to create and host native, shoppable video content for engaging product discovery, seamless shopping experiences and ultimately, a deeper emotional connection with consumers. Pandemic- accelerated, our client has experienced 10x year-over-year growth, bringing TikTok-like interactive video experiences, all by adding just one line of HTML code to their own website. Their team more than doubled in the last 18 months to over 200 people strong in several countries including the US, Japan, India, Russia, Poland, Brazil, and Canada with backgrounds in technology, media, and entertainment. At the heart, they’re an inspirational and diverse team of creators, entrepreneurs, storytellers, and data geeks driven by the future of video transforming eCommerce. The company is backed by IDG Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and GSR Ventures, with over $80 million in capital raised to date.
We’re looking for a talented Sr. Back end Engineer with experience in FinTech to join a quickly expanding global elite team who will bring technical expertise and leadership.
What you'll be doing:
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and the rest of the engineering team to build an elegant and scalable checkout and payment experience across multiple platforms
- Work closely with external customers and partners to strategize and develop new products and features for our customers
- Debug issues across entire stack, using tools like Sentry & AppSignal
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Review code by your peers on GitHub, offering help and insight from your experience
- Ensure coherence of all aspects of projects as an integrated system and uphold overall technical quality
We'll be excited if you have:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years of designing and implementing highly scalable payment and transaction processing backend systems
- Experience working with payment processing technologies, card networks, and integrating with major payment facilitators
- Proficiency in Elixir and Phoenix is a big plus
- Fluent in Phoenix and high-level experience with SQL infrastructure and modelling.
- Comfortable with change: ability to demonstrate comfort with ambiguity, adapt quickly and be effective in new situations in a highly dynamic setting
- Data-driven but also imaginative and intuitive in coming up with ideas and solutions
- Clear, concise, unambiguous verbal and written communication skills
- Must possess a start-up mindset: hunger to learn quickly and the ability to balance multiple priorities in a fast-paced team environment
- Master’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field