Backend Engineer

What you'll do As a backend engineer, you will design and build platforms, tooling, and system solutions that are configurable and scalable around the globe. Responsibilities • Design APIs and data models that facilitate complex system integrations • Design, build and maintain large-scale production services and data pipelines • Work on systems critical to UP’s current and future operation, with responsibility for billions of dollars of payments volume • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack • Collaborate with stakeholders across the company including engineering, product, operations, finance, data science, accounting, sales, and operations. • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes Requirements • 2-3 years of experience in data modeling, API design, distributed systems and data pipeline development. • Love to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns/practices, especially in the financial industry. • Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems. • Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems. • Think about systems, services, and platforms, and write high quality code. We work mostly in C#, Python and LLM. • However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework. • Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts. Note • Providing a one-page resume is a big plus.