Staff Backend Engineer (Financial Ledger)
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About the Role
Jobgether is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for a partner company to own the Financial Core system of a travel-tech SaaS platform. The role involves leading the evolution of a ledger-based financial system, ensuring correctness and scalability.
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Responsibilities
- Take technical ownership of the Financial Core system, guiding its evolution and aligning architecture with long term financial scalability
- Ensure system integrity by validating lifecycle flows, reconciliation logic, and financial correctness across distributed services
- Design and maintain ledger style financial models, including revenue recognition, cost allocation, and multi party transaction flows
- Improve and enforce strict financial invariants within an event driven architecture to ensure deterministic and auditable outcomes
- Collaborate with finance and engineering leadership to translate business rules into robust technical implementations
- Lead the evolution of a live production system, identifying gaps and driving improvements toward future iterations
- Support system reliability and scalability across payment, billing, and financial reporting domains
- Contribute hands on to backend development while shaping long term architectural direction
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience with strong ownership of financial, billing, or transactional systems
- Proven experience building or maintaining financial platforms such as payment systems, billing engines, ERP solutions, or subscription infrastructure
- Deep expertise in ledger systems, reconciliation mechanisms, and ensuring deterministic financial correctness
- Strong understanding of financial concepts such as revenue recognition, liabilities, cost structures, and multi party money flows
- Experience evolving complex production systems in active environments without disrupting existing functionality
- Hands on engineering mindset with ability to both design architecture and implement critical backend systems
- Strong proficiency with Python and relational data modeling (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Experience with event driven architectures and distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
- Ability to handle complex financial scenarios including multi currency, taxation logic, and settlement flows
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Position Overview
- This role sits at the core of a rapidly evolving financial infrastructure powering a modern travel tech SaaS platform.
- You will take ownership of a critical backend system responsible for financial accuracy, including revenue recognition, payments, ledger events, and profit calculation across a distributed environment.
- The position requires deep technical leadership combined with hands on engineering, ensuring the correctness and reliability of financial flows.
Accountabilities
- Take technical ownership of the Financial Core system, guiding its evolution, challenging assumptions, and aligning architecture with long term financial scalability.
- Ensure system integrity by validating lifecycle flows, reconciliation logic, and financial correctness across distributed services.
- Design and maintain ledger style financial models, including revenue recognition, cost allocation, and multi party transaction flows.
- Improve and enforce strict financial invariants within an event driven architecture to ensure deterministic and auditable outcomes.
- Collaborate with finance and engineering leadership to translate business rules into robust technical implementations.
- Lead the evolution of a live production system, identifying gaps in current architecture and driving improvements toward future iterations.
- Support system reliability and scalability across payment, billing, and financial reporting domains.
- Contribute hands on to backend development while shaping long term architectural direction.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience with strong ownership of financial, billing, or transactional systems.
- Proven experience building or maintaining financial platforms such as payment systems, billing engines, ERP solutions, or subscription infrastructure.
- Deep expertise in ledger systems, reconciliation mechanisms, and ensuring deterministic financial correctness.
- Strong understanding of financial concepts such as revenue recognition, liabilities, cost structures, and multi party money flows.
- Experience evolving complex production systems in active environments without disrupting existing functionality.
- Hands on engineering mindset with the ability to both design architecture and implement critical backend systems.
- Strong proficiency with Python and relational data modeling (PostgreSQL preferred).
- Experience with event driven architectures and distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
- Ability to handle complex financial scenarios including multi currency, taxation logic, and settlement flows.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation aligned with senior level backend engineering roles.
- Fully remote friendly work environment.
- Opportunity to own a mission critical financial system at the core of a SaaS transformation.
- High impact technical leadership role with significant architectural autonomy.
- Exposure to complex financial systems and large scale distributed architectures.
- Collaborative environment working closely with engineering and finance stakeholders.
- Modern cloud based stack (AWS, event driven systems, Python based services).
- Long term technical ownership of a foundational business system.
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