What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer position at REALM?
Senior/Staff Backend Engineer | AI Fintech | $170k-$240k Equity | SF or NYC
We're hiring on behalf of a well-funded Series A fintech building AI-powered infrastructure for financial institutions. The platform helps banks and credit unions modernise how they handle complex, high-volume operational workflows - replacing fragmented legacy tools with a single intelligent system.
They've seen strong early traction with real enterprise customers and are scaling the engineering team to match.
What you'll be doing:
- Building and maintaining reliable backend systems that integrate with credit card networks, banking platforms, and merchants
- Scaling core platform services to support a growing and diverse customer base
- Designing microservices architecture and core libraries that other engineers build on
- Owning end-to-end delivery of key features - from tech stack decisions through to deployment
- Mentoring engineers and leading projects as the technical owner
What they're looking for:
- 6 years in software engineering, with at least 2 years using Go or Java in production
- Experience on platform teams with meaningful contributions to system architecture
- Comfortable working with AI workflows
- Strong fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, distributed systems design
- Clear communicator who can lead a team and work cross-functionally
Compensation: $170,000 - $240,000 base equity
Location: Hybrid - SF or NYC (3 days/week in office)
Salary : $170,000 - $240,000