Senior Backend Developer (Stilt, San Francisco)

Salary Competitive

Stilt is building an online bank for those typically underserved by the existing credit bureau reporting process, customers who are new to the United States banking system, and those with “thin” or no files. Stilt is a Y-Combinator backed company based in San Francisco, founded by an immigrant team with expertise in finance, technology, and machine learning.


They are working hard to make financial services simple for underserved applicants by building an institution that uses cross-country data, better credit risk scoring, and operational efficiency. Stilt has now served immigrants from 100+ countries.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Stilt you get to architect and design large scale data processing systems, and service-based architecture. You will build and maintain APIs, services, and systems and drive efforts to improve the engineering process, testing, tooling, and coding standard. You will also be expected to lead engineering efforts and work with teams across the organization to improve business metrics.


What you’ll be doing at Stilt

  • Designing and building new features for Stilt Core Business

  • Exploring and using third-party tools for solving Stilt’s internal engineering challenge

  • Building a new API for our lending platform, or iterate on existing APIs

  • Building new tools for our operation teams, or iterate on existing tools

  • Integrating third-party APIs for security/payments/wire

  • Consolidating data from multiple platforms and create a platform for marketing and accounting team to use

  • Implementing tools to improve operational efficiency and reduce the DevOps work 

Things that make you a good fit

  • Have a good product understanding, not just focused on solving an engineering problem, but also in improving business metrics and user engagement

  • Drive end to end effort with the team members, and make sure to deliver the best quality of code

  • Hold yourself accountable for shipping quality code in production, and maintaining it over the time


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Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Skill development
Skill development

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Remote work allowed
Remote work allowed

You know how you perform best. Work from your couch, your favorite cafe or abroad when you feel like it.

Work life balance
Work life balance

Carve out time for your kids, friends and personal cider projects.

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