Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Synctera is a company focused on powering the future of FinTech through embedded banking products and services. They are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to build core platform capabilities in Go, automate financial compliance, and design scalable solutions that address complex financial problems.

Responsibilities

• Build, ship, and operate backend services in Go for production use cases with real reliability and correctness requirements
• Design systems that process high-volume, event-driven data with clear audit trails and reproducible behavior
• Extend and improve existing platform capabilities without adding unnecessary complexity
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering to turn ambiguous financial-services problems into concrete technical solutions
• Build customer-facing AI features that apply LLMs and ML models to real compliance problems, with attention to evaluation, latency, cost, and failure handling in production
• Help raise engineering quality through strong technical judgment, mentoring, and pragmatic decision-making

Skills

• 6+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
• Proven experience building and operating production backend systems in Go
• Solid hands-on experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database in production
• Experience designing or maintaining event-driven or data-intensive systems
• Experience working on systems where correctness, auditability, and reproducibility matter
• Experience shipping at least one customer-facing AI feature to production, or directly owning a production AI workflow with real users and measurable outcomes
• Comfort working on a small team with broad ownership and high expectations for technical judgment
• Experience in fintech, banking, compliance, risk, payments, or BaaS
• Experience with analytical data stores such as BigQuery, ClickHouse, or Snowflake
• Familiarity with dbt, Ent, Connect RPC, Protocol Buffers, Pulumi-managed GKE deployments, GitLab APIs, or Google Cloud APIs
• Experience on a fast-moving early-stage engineering team
• Preference for being based in, or open to spending regular time in, the San Francisco Bay Area for in-person collaboration

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