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Platform Software Engineer | Backend (Santa Rosa)Crossing Hurdles • Santa Rosa, CA, US
Platform Software Engineer | Backend (Santa Rosa)

Platform Software Engineer | Backend (Santa Rosa)

Crossing Hurdles • Santa Rosa, CA, US
6 hours ago
Job type
  • Part-time
Job description

Crossing Hurdles is a global recruitment firm partnering with a category-leading AI company in the financial services space. Our client powers mission-critical compliance automation for top fintechs and regulated banks worldwide including platforms trusted by institutions overseen by the OCC, FDIC, and SEC. With millions of compliance cases processed monthly and rapid market adoption, they are entering an intense engineering scale-up phase and expanding their platform team significantly over the next eight weeks.

Why you should consider

  • Build the platform that powers AI-driven compliance for top global fintechs and banks
  • Work on systems with 99.9%+ uptime requirements across thousands of daily cases
  • Join a hyper-growth engineering team during a company-defining scale phase
  • Tackle challenging distributed systems problems ingestion, workflows, orchestration, observability
  • Hybrid SF culture + a streamlined 2.5-hour onsite interview process
  • High-impact work in one of the fastest growing markets in AI + a standout brand for your next chapter

Role : Software Engineer, Platform

Compensation : $168k$213k base + competitive equity

Location : Hybrid (San Francisco, CA 2nd & Howard, 3 days / week)

Tech Stack : TypeScript, Node.js, Python, SQL, PostgreSQL

YOE : 38 years building backend systems in high-scale environments

About the role

  • Help build and operate the core infrastructure that enables compliance at scale for major financial institutions.
  • Work in a backend-leaning, platform-focused capacity owning critical systems end-to-end.
  • Design and build APIs that support high-volume, high-reliability workloads.
  • Run and optimize distributed workflows powering long-running, stateful processes.
  • Architect systems designed to handle thousands of concurrent requests with strict uptime requirements.
  • Thrive in an early-stage, high-ownership environment where engineers shape core product decisions.
  • Contribute to a high-trust engineering culture focused on impact, autonomy, and deep technical execution.
  • Requirements

  • 38 years of backend engineering experience, ideally in high-scale or regulated systems
  • Strong skills in TypeScript / Node or Python, plus SQL and PostgreSQL fundamentals
  • Experience with distributed systems, queues, or orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, etc.)
  • Comfort owning deployments, IaC, reliability, and on-call responsibilities
  • Clear communicator who understands trade-offs and can work cross-functionally in a fast-moving team
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