Backend Engineer

Paysafe is seeking a Backend Engineer to support the building and maintaining efficient, secure, and scalable services and APIs. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance backend services, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and applying security best practices in service development.

Requirements

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services.
• Implement and consume APIs.
• Integrate third-party systems and work with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Write clean, reusable, and well-documented code.
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other developers.
• Collaborate with the frontend, QA, product, and DevOps teams to ensure quality deliveries.
• Apply security best practices in service development.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of processes, tools, and architecture.
• Research and propose new technologies or technical solutions based on business needs.
• Understand the system architecture and its limitations.
• Validate technical decisions with architects or tech leads.
• Participate in decisions regarding tools, APIs, integrations, or infrastructure.
• Participate in task estimation and sprint planning.
• Prioritize tasks such as refactoring, performance improvements, technical debt, and migrations in collaboration with the Software Architect.
• Balance between user-visible features and the system's technical needs.
• Collaborate with QA to define testing criteria.
• Validate functional and technical deliverables (e.g., log review, performance, standards compliance).

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Cancer and life insurance
• 30 days of paid vacation
• 4 paid volunteer days per year
• Summer hours (Dec-Mar)
• Birthday day off