Staff Engineer (Backend)

About the role

We are looking for a Staff Engineer (Backend) to join our technology team. A Staff Engineer at slice is an innovative, quality focused, product minded engineering leader who cares deeply about building reliable systems at scale. You think in systems, you understand technical context, and you use your experience to shape strong engineering outcomes across teams. You’ll be involved in most major technical initiatives, influence engineering culture, and help move the organization in the right direction.

You will work closely with Design, Product, Data Science, and Analytics teams to design and develop backend microservices that power critical user and payment experiences across slice.

What you will do

• Lead engineering and technology best practices across quality, performance, design, and operations at an organizational level.
• Architect and deliver features or entire components with high ownership, whether you're building scalable loan origination workflows across lead conversion, KYC, underwriting, and approvals in LOS or strengthening core banking capabilities across loans, liabilities, term deposits, and branch operations in Branch Banking.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to ship end to end features across LOS and Branch Banking, ensuring reliable loan processing, secure employee workflows, maker-checker controls, transaction processing, and seamless integration with core banking and downstream services.
• Drive technical innovation and push the boundaries of how we design and scale large distributed systems across identity, onboarding, or payments domains.
• Prioritize effectively and switch contexts across domains as requirements evolve.
• Estimate project efforts accurately, identify risks early, propose solutions, and consistently meet delivery timelines.
• Lead design, functional, and code review cycles and ensure timely closure of all outstanding issues.
• Mentor and coach engineers, enabling them to grow while shaping the technical direction of whichever pod you anchor.
• Take a systems level view to understand how changes in onboarding, identity, payments, or compliance ripple across the product.
• Improve hiring processes and help bring top tier engineers into the organization.
• Represent your team and slice in internal and external engineering forums.

What you will need

• 8+ years of strong design and development experience building large scale distributed systems and internet products.
• Deep expertise in modern technology stacks and experience across multiple languages or backend ecosystems.
• Ability to write maintainable, scalable, and unit testable code.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams or project groups.
• Strong object oriented skills, knowledge of design patterns, and the ability to design intuitive modules and class level interfaces.
• Deep understanding of data driven web application design and development.
• Strong organisation, communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
• Proven performer who thrives in high energy, fast paced, product focused environments.
• Self starter who can operate with minimal guidance in a fluid environment.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements, scopes, and priorities.
• Contributions to open source or personal projects on GitHub are a strong plus.
• Prior experience in a fast paced product company.