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# Backend/API Engineer

- **Company:** PRD at St. George, LLC
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Software Debugging, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Backend, Graphql, Software Coding, Grpc, Docker, Programming Languages
- **Published:** June 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/5127de59-7f7d-47ff-8c85-4a0e21f444bf

## About the Role

* 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
 * Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job, so our interview process is language-agnostic)
 * Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
 * Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset
 * Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Preferred qualifications

 * Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems
 * Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker and Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.)

## Description

Exact team matching for one of the subteams begins during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. Find more information on our team matching process here.
What you'll do

We're looking for Backend Engineers who want to make an impact on managing money at a global scale with a passion for building ergonomic APIs. You'll play a key role in extending our balance management platform and in building out a new funds accessibility platform that enterprises and SMBs use. Our team collaborates with many cross-functional teams-from Infrastructure to Product-at Stripe to deliver innovative solutions that address evolving user needs.
Responsibilities

 * Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests
 * Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
 * Mentor engineers to help them grow
 * Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
 * Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues


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