Senior Software Engineer - Backend

• Design and scale backend services that power Parker’s financial products and APIs.
• Lead architectural decisions to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability across our systems.
• Build and maintain services in a modern cloud-native environment (Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
• Partner with product and infrastructure teams to design secure, intuitive APIs and data models.
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, technical mentorship, and architectural guidance.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and lead initiatives to improve reliability, observability, and system design.
• Contribute to the evolution of Parker’s technical roadmap and long-term engineering vision.

Basic qualifications

• 7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems in production.
• Strong proficiency with Node.js http://node.js and Typescript (or comparable backend languages such as Go, Java, or Python).
• Experience with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with GraphQL, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally.

Who you are

• A technical leader who thrives in ownership-driven environments.
• A systems thinker who can balance speed, reliability, and maintainability.
• A mentor who enjoys helping teammates grow through thoughtful guidance.
• A pragmatic builder who can ship fast while maintaining high code quality.
• A problem solver with curiosity for how financial systems and data pipelines work at scale.

• Experience working in fintech, payments, or e-commerce infrastructure.
• Background in credit systems, ledgering, or transactional data modeling.
• Contributions to or interest in open source software.
• Experience in high-growth startup environments.