Senior Backend Developer
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BetterCharge is hiring a Senior Backend Developer. BetterCharge is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to design and build backend services for a high-volume financial data platform. This role involves working closely with the CTO and founding team to make architectural decisions and deliver robust code. The ideal candidate will be an engine room operator for mission-critical systems, ensuring speed, reliability, and security.
Key focus areas include Architect, build, and maintain backend services and APIs in Node.js on AWS, Own critical infrastructure powering transaction flows and retry engines, and Collaborate tightly with product, data, and integration teams to ship end-to-end features.
Successful candidates bring 5+ Years Experience. Important skills include Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, AWS Architecture, AWS Lambda, and Amazon RDS. Preferred (not required): PostgreSQL, MySQL, Payments, and Fintech.
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Full job description
Job description BetterCharge is rewriting the rules of payments. We help merchants recover lost revenue from declined cards by working smarter and faster—think real-time transaction decisioning, clever retries, and seamless partner integrations. Our platform quietly hums behind the scenes, making money flow better, smoother, and stronger.
As a Senior Backend Developer, you’ll be the engine room operator of this mission-critical system—designing and building backend services that handle high-volume financial data with speed, reliability, and security. You’ll work closely with our CTO and founding team to push the boundaries, make smart architectural calls, and deliver rock-solid code.
Job responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain backend services and APIs in Node.js on AWS (Lambda, S3, Kinesis, and more)
- Own critical infrastructure powering transaction flows and retry engines
- Collaborate tightly with product, data, and integration teams to ship end-to-end features
- Lead code reviews, mentor engineers, and champion backend best practices
- Identify and fix performance bottlenecks, security issues, and stability gremlins
- Contribute to architecture decisions, observability tooling, and developer experience improvements
Job requirements
- 5+ years experience building production-grade backend systems
- Deep experience with Node.js and modern JavaScript/TypeScript patterns
- Proven expertise in AWS architecture , including Lambda, RDS, SQS, and CloudWatch
- Strong understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL preferred)
- Experience working on high-throughput, high-availability systems
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: testing, observability, code quality
- Ability to lead, own, and deliver complex backend projects end-to-end
- Bonus: experience with payments, fintech, or transaction-heavy systems
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