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Tabby is a fintech platform that enables flexible payment solutions, allowing shoppers to split purchases with no interest or fees. The company serves over 25 million users and partners with 70,000+ global brands including Amazon, Noon, IKEA, and SHEIN. Tabby processes over $18 billion in annual transaction volume and is valued at $6.5 billion.
You will join as a Staff Engineer on the Core Backend team, working remotely with engineers across 20+ countries. This is a high-impact individual contributor role focused on shaping the technical direction and architecture of shared backend services and developer tools.
Key responsibilities include:
- Shape the technical direction and roadmap of Core Backend, building shared services, libraries, and developer tools used across engineering teams
- Identify common challenges and turn them into reusable solutions that improve developer productivity, system reliability, and security
- Lead the design and evolution of shared backend capabilities, including event-driven communication, application-level encryption, and sensitive data protection
- Develop internal engineering tools such as Service Catalog, API Registry, SLO platform, and AI-assisted development tools
- Drive complex initiatives from problem discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and production validation, coordinating across teams
- Work closely with teams using your tools to understand needs, support integrations and migrations, and guide improvements based on feedback
- Stay hands-on with Go, validate performance and failure scenarios, and build observability and recovery mechanisms into systems
- Raise the engineering bar through architecture reviews, clear technical decisions, mentoring, and documentation
Requirements:
- 7+ years of backend engineering, including building and operating production systems at scale
- Strong Go experience and a track record of staying hands-on in senior technical roles
- Deep expertise in distributed, high-load systems (PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, GCP, GitLab, microservices)
- Proven ownership of complex initiatives from design through production, including architecture and technology decisions with lasting impact
- Strong grasp of quality, security, observability, and operational excellence
- Experience integrating third-party APIs and contributing to product development
- Ability to influence decisions across teams and explain technical topics clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a team or organization
- Strong English and proactive, autonomous approach to ambiguous problems
