Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Sardine

About Sardine

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform dedicated to 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. Our 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 a high growth orientation. We value performance over hours worked, believing that personal commitments should not be sacrificed for arbitrary work schedules. We are a remote-first team spread across time zones, meaning there's no office to report to – you work from wherever helps you do your best work. While we embrace flexibility, pay is based on your location, and you'll need to maintain a home base in the country you're hired in. This offers flexibility within your country, not borderless work-from-anywhere.

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 for this backend role 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)
• Golang
• Ruby
• Bigtable
• Postgres / PostgreSQL
• GCP dataflow (Apache Beam)
• BigQuery
• Python
• Java
• Terraform

Benefits We Offer

• Generous compensation in cash and equity, including early exercise for all options (pre-vested).
• Remote-first culture: work from anywhere in Canada.
• Flexible paid time off and a year-end break.
• Health, 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.