Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Sardine

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine’s platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.

Our Culture & Remote Work

We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation. We value performance over hours worked, believing you shouldn't miss important life events for an arbitrary work schedule.

We are a remote-first team spread across time zones, meaning there's no office to report to – work from wherever helps you do your best work. Please note that pay is based on your location, and you'll need to maintain a home base in the country you're hired in. While we embrace flexibility, this role is remote within the United States, not borderless.

About the Role

As a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, constructing, and maintaining APIs, services, and systems across our engineering team. This multifaceted position involves developing new features on a large scale, refining internal tooling and processes, contributing to product and technical roadmaps, and assuming diverse responsibilities within the organization. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in building highly available APIs, with additional proficiency in data pipelines and relevant domain knowledge.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, create, and maintain robust, efficient, and reliable backend services to meet our platform's evolving needs.
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to architect and implement new services from inception to delivery.
• Contribute to developing new features and capabilities that deliver substantial value to our customers.
• Work with various engineering and product teams to synchronize efforts and deliver cutting-edge solutions.
• Craft and maintain user-facing technical documentation, enhancing user understanding and facilitating seamless adoption of our services.
• Play a pivotal role in shaping our company's engineering culture, ensuring the maintenance of high engineering standards across the organization.

What You'll Need

• 7+ years of proven experience as a Software Engineer specializing in web backend development.
• Proficiency in Golang is a significant advantage.
• Additional experience in data engineering is highly desirable.
• A track record of successfully delivering high-quality production services and systems.
• Customer-centric approach with a strong emphasis on empathy towards users.
• Relevant industry experience, particularly in banking or fintech, and domain knowledge in fraud prevention or compliance.
• Proficient in English - from casual chats to formal reports.

Technologies We Use

• TypeScript (React + Node.js)
• Golang
• Ruby
• Bigtable
• Postgres / PostgreSQL
• GCP Dataflow (Apache Beam)
• BigQuery
• Python
• Java
• Terraform

Benefits We Offer

• Generous compensation in cash and equity
• Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
• Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
• Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents (US and Canada specific)
• 4% matching in 401k / RRSP (US and Canada specific)
• MacBook Pro delivered to your door
• One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
• Monthly meal stipend
• Annual health and wellness stipend
• Annual Learning stipend

Join a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world. If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you.