Staff Software Engineer, Backend

In the U.S., co-branded cards alone account for over $300 billion in annual spend, and most still run on decades-old legacy bank systems. Imprint is the modern alternative: flexible, embeddable, and built for how people actually pay today. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital, Ribbit, and Khosla Ventures, we're...

The backend is core to this expansion: every transaction, every credit decision, and every rewards calculation runs on the financial infrastructure we build. At the Staff level, you'll provide both the technical and cultural leverage that helps the team and the systems scale together.

Drive architecture and implementation of critical financial systems: from transaction authorization and ledger accounting, to credit decisioning, to rewards engines and payment processing. You write code, make design decisions, and own outcomes.

10+ years of experience building production backend systems, operating in the details and driving strong technical outcomes
You've architected and shipped systems that handle real money, real users, or real-time decisions, and you've made the teams around you better in the process
You operate fluidly across staff archetypes depending on context — tech lead, architect, solver — adapting your approach to what the team and problem need
You model the culture you want to see: psychological safety, intellectual honesty, and high standards for craft
You communicate clearly at every level, from pairing on implementation details to presenting technical strategy to leadership
Proficiency in Go (our primary backend language), or a similar language with willingness to ramp quickly
Experience ensuring data consistency and transactional integrity across distributed systems
Strong with relational databases: schema design, migrations, and query performance tuning
You drive technical alignment across product managers, business stakeholders, and engineers of all levels.
Experience using AI tools (code assistants, MCP servers, agentic workflows) to accelerate development, or genuine enthusiasm to adopt them
Startup experience a plus
We don't expect every candidate to match every bullet. If you're excited about what we're building and confident you can contribute, we'd love to talk.
Go, MySQL, DynamoDB, Temporal, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Statsig.
Read more about how we build at Imprint on our engineering blog: https://tech.imprint.co/.