Senior Reliability Engineer (Backend Focus)

Senior Reliability Engineer (Backend Focus)

NYC

About our team

Accrue is a fintech company that powers modern customer loyalty at the payment layer. Centered around its branded stored value wallet solution, Accrue's platform helps brands take control of their payments and refunds, reward customer loyalty, and bypass traditional payment giants.

Build a deeper, more durable customer base while optimizing your bottom line – all with Accrue.

About the Role

We're looking for a senior backend engineer who builds reliability through elegant, production-ready code architecture. You'll have significant authority to rearchitect critical systems, replacing homegrown solutions with industry-standard tooling and patterns that handle 10k+ req / sec at scale.

This is primarily a programming role focused on building robust, observable systems through code. You'll spend most of your time architecting and implementing reliability improvements, not managing infrastructure.

What makes this role unique :

• Architectural Authority

Drive decisions on adopting technologies like Temporal.io for durable execution vs. maintaining custom retry logic

Design systems that handle high-throughput payment and loyalty processing with strict SLA requirements

Improve system reliability by writing better application code, not just adding monitoring

Replace internal implementations with proven, production-ready solutions

What you'll do

System Architecture & Reliability Engineering

Replace custom retry mechanisms with durable execution engines like Temporal.io

Migrate direct webhook handling to reliable delivery systems like Hookdeck with proper delivery semantics

Integrate time-series databases to detect and alert on changing system behavioral patterns

Systematically replace "not invented here" solutions with industry-standard, battle-tested alternatives

Technical Leadership

What you'll need

Required

Ability to identify when to build vs. buy vs. adopt existing solutions

Experience making architectural decisions and driving technical improvements independently

Highly Valued

What We're NOT Looking For

TypeScript / Node.js, REST APIs, high-throughput transaction processing

AWS (ECS, RDS, ELB), Cloudflare

Datadog (existing), custom instrumentation and analytics

10k+ requests / second, real-time payment and loyalty processing

Distributed microservices, event-driven systems

Types of Challenges You'd Tackle

Salary Information

The range listed below is just one component of Accrue's total compensation package; This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary range is for US-based employees located in the listed market. Other benefits include those listed above such as healthcare and 401k with 3% contribution.

Salary Range

$180,000 - $220,000 USD

Accrue is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@accruemoney.com.

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