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Grid

Senior Backend Engineer

Oakland, California, United States

Location
Oakland, California, United States
Work
Remote
Employment
Full-time
Level
Senior
Function
Engineering
Pay
$145K – $170K a year
Posted
25 months ago

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $170K a year, is 17% below the median of $205K for senior engineering jobs in Oakland (middle half $175K – $250K, 25 jobs that state pay).

61 engineering jobs open in Oakland: 20% remote, 14 posted in the last 30 days.

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About the role

About Grid

We founded Grid to design future-proof solutions for financial firms and startups struggling to keep pace with the breakneck advance of fraud tactics. A new player in the fraud prevention space with deep roots in financial business management, we came by our mission the hard way.

After our consumer business fell victim to one of the infinite variations of fraud, our co-founders set out to create a platform that’s more of a fortress than a tool — saving our clients millions in annual revenue and a ton of restless nights. The result? A fraud prevention platform that integrates multiple data providers into a single, powerful solution designed for rapid deployment and ease of use.

About the Role

  • Build robust, fault-tolerant integrations with 3rd party APIs that have little to no or poor documentation.
  • Create sophisticated background processing pipelines that are also fault-tolerant.
  • Develop mature APIs and microservices that adhere to RESTful principles that are used by paying clients in production.
  • Write strong unit and integration tests that ensure the code quality of your work.
  • Investigate client issues and service disruptions that require a deep dive.
  • Translate high-level requirements into a system design update and new data model while collaborating with clients and team members through requirements gathering and discovery.
  • Evaluate the pros and cons of high level architectural choices as well as lower level design decisions required within an existing application.
  • Work autonomously and make system design decisions that are resistant to change leveraging your experience.
  • Deeply invested in your work and client happiness.
  • Mentor junior to mid level engineers while also holding them accountable.

About You

  • 7+ years of full-time experience as a Software Engineer
  • BS in Computer Science or commensurate experience
  • Proficient in TypeScript and JavaScript programming languages
  • Strong experience with relational databases including schema and query design, implementation, optimization, and ORM usage
  • Deep understanding of Node.js semantics (event loops, streams, events, etc)
  • Proven track record for integrating with external APIs
  • Full confidence in building a fault-tolerant and high-performant microservice
  • Experience with background job processing, queues, etc
  • History of scaling and optimizing performance of applications to support rapid growth

Our Stack

  • NestJS
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • TypeORM
  • RabbitMQ
  • Redis
  • Heroku
  • Git

Bonus

  • Software Engineering experience in Finance or FinTech.
  • Experience on the Google Cloud Platform

Benefits & Perks

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • $1,500.00 professional development budget
  • Fitness/Wellness reimbursement
  • Internet reimbursement
  • Home Office $1,000.00 stipend
  • Unlimited PTO with manager approval
  • Mental health days off
  • Annual company offsite

Source

Posted by Grid on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 12:15 UTC; the original is the reference.

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