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Backend Engineer

Atomic

Mountain View, CAFull-time$150–200K/yrSeen 2mo agoStill listed 3 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$150–200K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Atomic is a fast‑growing, mission‑driven company building critical financial infrastructure for consumer‑facing firms, offering services like ESG investing and multi‑currency trading across global markets.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

GoTypescriptPythonPostgreSQLAWS KinesisGRPCIstioJaegerKubernetesEKSTemporal

Qualifications

Computer Science Degree or Equivalent Experience2+ Years Designing and Developing Distributed Systems in GolangPrior Experience in the Financial IndustryExperience and Interest Building Fault‑Tolerant Workflows With TemporalExperience With Building Secure and Compliant Systems

Full job description

About Atomic We are a fast-growing, mission driven company powering the expansion of financial services and wealth creation globally. We build critical financial infrastructure that allows consumer facing companies to offer engaging investing experience to their customers in a frictionless way. We host advanced investing capabilities ranging from ESG investing to multi-currency trading across 60 global markets. We are a team of financial empowerment enthusiasts that have come together from various industries including tech, banking, finance and law. Once here, you will Play a key role in designing, developing, and architecting our microservices. We are a technology-first company, leveraging a cloud-native technology stack (kubernetes, istio, open telemetry). At Atomic, you will help build services that help make it easier for ordinary individuals to secure their financial prosperity. What we are looking for We are looking for candidates who are creative, autonomous, curious, and hard-working. Some things that may make you a great fit:

  • Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
  • 2+ years of experience designing and developing highly scalable distributed systems and APIs in Golang.
  • Desire to establish architectural decisions, strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
  • Experience designing and implementing highly scalable and reliable REST APIs and the desire to make them world-class
  • Experience in successful delivery of high quality production services and systems

Ideal Candidates will have:

  • Prior experience in the financial industry.
  • Experience and interest building out fault-tolerant workflows with Temporal
  • Experience with building secure and compliant systems.

Technology Stack

  • Go, Typescript, Python
  • PostgreSQL, AWS Kinesis, GRPC, Istio, Jaeger
  • Kubernetes (EKS) / AWS
  • Temporal

How to Apply Apply online here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/atomic-invest/241de06e-858d-4e52-b3ac-43bc7c024176

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How this job compares

Set against the 3,255 open Backend Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$150–200K/yr
  • California median$167–244K/yr826 salary ranges
  • US median$149–224K/yr2,601 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $175K, is 15% below the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the lowest quarter of Backend Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,077 open Backend Engineer jobs in California and 3,255 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Backend Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,641 postings).
Education
899 of the 3,255 open Backend Engineer jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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