Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer - MESA : Job Details

Mesa is on a mission to make homeownership more affordable and rewarding. They are building the homeowner membership category by rewarding consumers on all aspects of their homeownership spend. Mesa is led by a world-class team of repeat founders and fintech operators from Uber, Cash App, Square, Robinhood, BILT, and Spotify, and backed by some of the best investors in the world.

We're looking for a senior/staff backend software engineer who will contribute to building our core products and own our backend infrastructure.

You'll be working alongside our product and engineering teams to develop our core payments infrastructure, mobile application, and web-based applications to manage marketplace and rewards products. As part of our early team, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our products with top-tier financial services partners. This is an extremely hands-on and growth-centric role, perfect for those who thrive in dynamic, fast-paced startup environments and are passionate about building technology from 0-1 with a customer-first mindset.

• Contribute to the development of our core products, primarily focusing on our backend systems.
• Build and maintain Mesa's production and staging infrastructure and cloud strategy by introducing best practices with cloud-native technologies like RDS, S3, SQS.
• Drive technical delivery — from architectural design to development to QA.
• Participate in customer discovery efforts and initiatives as our beta users help us refine our product.

• 7+ years of backend software engineering experience building consumer applications with NodeJS or similar frameworks.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript is a must.
• Proficiency or willingness to learn managing infrastructure with Terraform and DevOps best practices.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, handle ambiguity, and possess a strong product ownership mindset.

• Experience integrating with fintech SaaS products such as Plaid and Marqeta.
• Experience in payment systems and banking systems.
• Experience with Expo, NestJS.
• Knowledge of Terraform, Prisma, AWS, Sentry.
• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
• 100% covered health, vision, dental, and Carrot Fertility benefits.
• 401(k) plan.
• Fully remote work option.
• Regular team and company-wide offsites.
• Unlimited vacation policy.

Location: This is a hybrid role, requiring four days per week in one of our offices in San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; or Austin, TX.

To Apply: Principals only. No recruiters, please.

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