Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer - MESA : Job Details

About Mesa Mesa is on a mission to make homeownership more affordable and rewarding. They are building the homeowner membership category by rewarding consumers on all aspects of their homeownership spend. Mesa is led by a world-class team of repeat founders and fintech operators from Uber, Cash App, Square, Robinhood, BILT, and Spotify and backed by some of the best investors in the world. Read more about us: Techcrunch Article About the role We're looking for a senior/staff backend software engineer who will contribute building our core products and own our backend infrastructure. You'll be working alongside our product and engineering teams to develop our core payments infrastructure, mobile application, and web-based applications to manage marketplace and rewards products. As part of our early team, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our MVP with top-tier financial services partners. This is an extremely hands-on and growth-centric role perfect for those who thrive in dynamic, fast-paced startup environments and are passionate about building technology from 0-1 with a customer-first mindset. How you'll make an impact

• Contribute to the development of our core products by contributing primarily to our backend
• Build and maintain Mesa's production and staging infrastructure and cloud strategy by introducing best practices with cloud-native technologies like RDS, S3, SQS
• Drive technical delivery - everything from architectural design to development to QA
• Participate in customer discovery efforts and initiatives as our beta users help us refine our product

Requirements

• 7+ years of backend software engineering experience building consumer applications with NodeJS, React Native, Typescript, AWS.
• 7+ years of managing infrastructure with Terraform (or Terraform wrappers), AWS (or Azure, GCP)
• Strong proficiency with Typescript and Terraform is a must
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, handle ambiguity, and have strong product ownership mindset
• Must love dogs

Nice to Haves:

• Experience integrating with fintech SaaS products such as Plaid and Marqeta
• Experience in the payments, banking, credit or marketplace spaces
• Experience in Expo, NestJS

Our Tech Stack

• Typescript
• NestJS
• React Native (Expo)
• Terraform
• Postgres
• Prisma
• AWS

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• 100% covered Health, Vision Dental & Carrot Fertility
• 401(k) plan
• Fully remote
• Regular team and company wide offsites
• Unlimited vacation policy

Location: US & Canada Remote - EST Timezone preferred. We have an office in NYC in the heart of West Village. To Apply: Principals only. But seriously, no recruiters.