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# Backend Software Engineer

- **Company:** Community Partners
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Software Engineering, Backend, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Terraform
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-backend-software-engineer-nyc-comun-7413171

## About the Role

* Opinionated on software engineering best practices, at a code and developer productivity level.
 * Product-minded and passionate about delivering delightful experiences to customers.
 * Experienced building backend systems that grow in complexity over time.
 * A critical thinker capable of making tradeoffs in a fast paced environment.
 * A great communicator and collaborator, capable of creating and running cross-functional processes., * 4+ years of experience in software engineering
 * 2+ years of experience using Python and Postgres
 * Bonus: Experience with GraphQL, DevOps (Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes), and pub/sub models (Kafka)

We value domain experts that are obsessed with their craft and push the quality bar beyond reach. We also like generalists that are self-driven and entrepreneurial, who can make product decisions and own operational processes.

## Description

As a backend engineer, you'll be responsible for extending our systems to support additional banking features, increases in usage volume, and the needs of our non-technical company functions.

You'll maintain our core offering - a deposit account and debit card powered through our Banking as a Service partner, while designing our architecture to bundle additional financial services into a personalized product experience. We've adopted a lightweight microservice infrastructure that allows us to move quickly, but that can flex on robustness to ensure scalability as our engineering team grows.

What you'll do

 * Collaborate with our product, design, and front end functions to build new financial offerings that advance the company mission.
 * Work with back end peers to establish new processes, software patterns, and tools that expedite our development process.
 * Maintain a testing and observability stack that keeps our system stable and proactively alerts us of internal or third party users.
 * Work with leadership to plan our engineering execution across different time horizons.


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