synctera - Sr. Software Engineer
Requirements
• We’re looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Cable team and build core platform capabilities in Go. You’ll build new features and products that automate financial compliance and banking operations at scale, and design major components across our stack where data privacy, auditability, and large-scale bank data all matter. • Recent projects senior engineers have led include: • A new auth and SSO stack • A new notifications system • A major re-architecture of our data pipeline • A customer-facing AI feature that extracts structured signals from unstructured compliance documents • WHAT WE BUILD WITH • Our backend services are primarily written in Go. Our frontend is React with TypeScript. We run on Google Cloud Platform and commonly work with Postgres, Redis, Pub/Sub, Kubernetes, Cloud Run, Terraform, and OpenAPI-based service contracts. • 6+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer • Proven experience building and operating production backend systems in Go • Solid hands-on experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database in production • Experience designing or maintaining event-driven or data-intensive systems • Experience working on systems where correctness, auditability, and reproducibility matter • Experience shipping at least one customer-facing AI feature to production, or directly owning a production AI workflow with real users and measurable outcomes • Comfort working on a small team with broad ownership and high expectations for technical judgment • We’d be especially excited if you also bring any of the following: • Experience in fintech, banking, compliance, risk, payments, or BaaS. • Experience with analytical data stores such as BigQuery, ClickHouse, or Snowflake. • Familiarity with dbt, Ent, Connect RPC, Protocol Buffers, Pulumi-managed GKE deployments, GitLab APIs, or Google Cloud APIs. • Experience on a fast-moving early-stage engineering team. • Preference for being based in, or open to spending regular time in, the San Francisco Bay Area for in-person collaboration. • We care much more about concrete experience than polished language. In the application, please answer briefly and specifically using examples from work you personally did. Generic or highly polished answers that do not include details about systems, constraints, tradeoffs, or outcomes are less helpful than plain, direct answers. • DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
Responsibilities
• Build, ship, and operate backend services in Go for production use cases with real reliability and correctness requirements. • Design systems that process high-volume, event-driven data with clear audit trails and reproducible behavior. • Extend and improve existing platform capabilities without adding unnecessary complexity. • Partner closely with Product and Engineering to turn ambiguous financial-services problems into concrete technical solutions. • Build customer-facing AI features that apply LLMs and ML models to real compliance problems, with attention to evaluation, latency, cost, and failure handling in production. • Help raise engineering quality through strong technical judgment, mentoring, and pragmatic decision-making.
Benefits
• US Tier 1$184K – $245K • Offers Equity • US Tier 2$160K – $215K • Offers Equity • CanadaCA$120K – CA$162K • Offers Equity • We use a geo-tier compensation model to ensure fair, market-competitive, and consistent pay across our remote-first team. Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and work location, with each geographic area assigned to a tier that reflects local market data and the cost of labor. • How We Define Our Tiers: • US Tier 1: Premium markets, e.g., the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. • US Tier 1: • US Tier 2: All other United States locations. • US Tier 2: • Canada: All provinces and territories. • Canada: • The base salary ranges displayed for this posting reflect the expected compensation for this role across our geographic tiers, and final compensation will align with the tier associated with your confirmed work location and be discussed transparently during the interview process. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • Please provide your first and last name. • or drag and drop here • Please note that although all positions at Synctera are remote, candidates must be located and authorized to work in the US or Canada as a precondition of employment. Synctera does not sponsor applicants for work visas. • Not located in the United States or Canada • Yes: I am authorized to work in the US or Canada and do not require employer sponsorship now or in the future • No: I require employer sponsorship for a work visa or permit now or in the future • Less than 2 years • Go was my primary language on a production backend system • Go was one of several languages I used on a production backend system • I have used Go, but not as a meaningful part of a production backend system • I have not used Go in production • Please include what the system did, your exact contribution, approximate scale, one production issue you had to debug, how you found the root cause, and how you fixed it or verified the fix. • I have shipped multiple customer-facing AI features to production • I have shipped at least one customer-facing AI feature to production • I have worked on AI features, but have not shipped them to production • I have not worked on customer-facing AI features • Please include the user, the problem it solved, your exact contribution, the model or approach used, one important tradeoff or failure mode you had to account for, and how you evaluated quality or success.
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