Job Description
### About the Role
SpotMe provides our members with liquidity when and where they need it, enabling them to buy groceries, pay for transportation, or cover unexpected expenses. We’re looking for a backend engineer to help build and operate our services that make this possible. You’ll join a collaborative team that holds a high bar for quality, learns together, and cares deeply about solving real member problems.
### Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and scale backend APIs and services for new and existing product features.
- Collaborate closely with mobile, product, design, risk, and data partners to understand member pain points and turn them into reliable solutions.
- Proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems.
- Participate in code reviews, on-call rotations, and incident follow-ups to help the team raise the bar on quality and operational excellence.
### Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience developing software in a production environment at scale.
- Proven experience with Ruby on Rails or comparable frameworks.
- Experience working with transactional databases and caching systems.
- Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications.
- A collaborative, low-ego working style and a strong product mindset.
### Benefits
- Base salary starting at $133,000, up to $184,000, plus bonuses and equity packages.
- Full-time employees are eligible for competitive benefits.