Founding Backend Engineer
- Full-time
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Headcount 1
Job Details
- Experience 2 - 5 Years
- Salary $ - $
- Equity Competitive Equity
- Visa Sponsorship H-1B, O-1
- Employment Type Full-Time position
- Work Type In-person
Benefits & perks
- Meals
- Health, dental and vision insurance
About this role
As the Founding Backend Engineer, you will own the systems that move payments and assert identity for us as it goes from a working platform to real production traffic. A retry that runs twice is a double charge; a leaked credential is a breach. The codebase is relatively mature, so the work now is the production layer: security, anticipating scale, catching bad actors, technical compliance and meeting SLAs. You will work closely with Lane’s two existing backend engineers, with a horizontal focus on security, compliance and scalability rather than one product area. This is an IC role: you set the architecture, write the code and carry the pager for what you ship. This role is in person at our San Francisco office, roughly 6 days a week (Sunday through Friday), with flexibility on weekends.
You will directly:
- Build security and compliance into the code: small PCI scope, secrets and key management, access control, audit trails, SOC 2 / PCI DSS controls as checks, threat modeling, incident response
- Run the AWS platform as infrastructure as code, plus CI/CD, staged rollouts and rollbacks
- Keep payments correct: authorization, capture and reconciliation that are idempotent, auditable and recoverable
- Own reliability: SLOs, instrumentation, outage prevention and runbooks someone can follow at 2 a.m.
- Drive efficiency: latency on the purchase path and cost per transaction
Requirements
- Built backend systems that other systems and people depend on
- Strong correctness instincts: idempotency, retries, distributed state, failure modes
- Security as a habit: least privilege, secret handling, audit logging, threat models
- Hands-on cloud (AWS preferred) and infrastructure as code
- TypeScript or Python
- Clear written communication: what broke, why, and what changed
- Available to work roughly 6 days a week (Sunday through Friday)
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