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Sr/Staff Engineer - Backend

hireVouch  •  New York City, NY (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

About The Role

We’re looking for a seasoned Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to join the Finance Pod, which builds and maintains the complex systems that power advisor payments at Fora. This pod owns the end-to-end advisor payment system and experience (covering booking data ingestion, commission collection, and payouts), and is expanding quickly into new fintech and payment products.

In this role, you’ll design and implement scalable systems that ensure payouts are fast, accurate, and transparent, while collaborating with Product and Ops to bring financial data to life in the Advisor Portal and internal tools. You’ll help build and evolve services that handle booking ingestion, payout logic, reconciliation, and integrations with payment processors like Stripe. Example projects include building smart visualizations for the Payments page, shaping our traveler invoicing experience, building payout statuses and notifications, and integrating with new financial platforms and services.

Our ideal candidate is someone who understands our mission and is excited to shape how thousands of travel entrepreneurs get paid—bringing an eye for user experience, data integrity, and trust to every interaction involving money movement.

Key Responsibilities

  • Partner with Product Managers and Designers to define and prioritize the roadmap for advisor payments, commission earnings, and revenue systems
  • Design and maintain distributed systems that process booking, payment, and reconciliation data at scale
  • Build and optimize backend services that power payout logic, transaction timing, ledger accuracy, and integrations with third-party payment platforms
  • Focus on performance, architecture, data modeling, and transactional reliability in all systems you own
  • Collaborate with other engineers to define end-to-end engineering solutions that connect frontend experiences with secure, verifiable backend processes
  • Own epics and be responsible for the full solution—design, implementation, and delivery

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years experience in backend web development
  • 3+ years experience with Python, using Django / Flask / equivalent frameworks
  • Strong experience designing APIs and distributed systems that handle financial or transactional data
  • Experience with relational databases, ORMs, and data models that support accounting or ledger-based workflows
  • Background in FinTech, Payments, or Infrastructure—especially systems involving reconciliation, double-entry accounting, or money movement—is highly preferred
  • AWS experience, a plus
  • Kubernetes experience, a plus
  • Ability to be a team player, with strong communication and collaboration skills
  • An entrepreneurial mindset
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About hireVouch

Our Edge

Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the often-employed aggressive methods typical of the recruitment industry, our focus is placed largely on referral-based networking.

Getting it right really matters to us. Let us leverage our network of talent that has already been vouched for by leading professionals in the industry to help your business grow.

Services Offered

Contingency and Retained Search

Here at hireVouch we focus on sourcing best-in-class candidates for rewarding positions in Canada and the US. We have extensive expertise in Contingency, Retained and Temporary placement, primarily within the IT sector.

On-Site Search Assistance

We have a trusted network of HR and search professionals who can provide on-site search services to help fulfill immediate needs as well as help train internal staff in finding the highest quality talent

Company Marketing Strategy

We know how competitive the job market can truly be and how important it is to have a strategy to attract talent. At hireVouch we have extensive expertise in helping companies better market themselves. We can provide the tools and knowledge that will assist you in making your business a highly attractive place to work. Developing a company marketing strategy is key to hiring the talent you need to grow.

Industry
HR & Recruiting
Company Size
1-10 employees
Headquarters
Unknown
Year Founded
2016
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