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Salary: USD 125,000 - 200,000 / annual
Lively is a fintech company modernizing employee benefits, with a focus on Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and related financial products. The company operates as a remote-first organization headquartered in San Francisco, serving employers, consumers, and financial institutions.
You will join as a Senior Backend Software Engineer focused on implementing and enhancing investment and financial products for a growing user base. The role involves building backend services that integrate seamlessly with financial institutions, move funds securely, track balances, and support healthcare decision-making. You'll work across a modern stack including Node.js/TypeScript, PostgreSQL, React, AWS Lambda, and Kinesis, with a primary emphasis on backend development.
Key responsibilities include:
- Analyzing and providing feedback on product requirements
- Implementing features with clean, maintainable code
- Ensuring software quality through rigorous testing and automated unit tests
- Troubleshooting production issues and recommending improvements
- Contributing across the full stack while maintaining backend focus
You should be comfortable in a fast-paced, growing environment where everything is driven by improving user outcomes. The interview process includes a recruiting screen, hiring manager conversation, 90-minute technical/coding exercise, and cross-functional panel interviews.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of software development experience with strong backend focus
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js
- Strong understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Proven experience designing and developing scalable, high-performance web applications
- Strong software architecture and design pattern knowledge
- Experience building backend services with high availability and scalability requirements
- Ability to model and design intuitive, scalable database schemas
- Experience with agile/scrum methodologies
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Familiarity with AWS cloud platforms and DevOps practices (preferred)
- Passion for continuous learning and leveraging new AI tools
