Mid/Senior Backend Software Engineer, Imprint
$140-200k
+ Equity
Branded payments and rewards products
Open for applications
Branded payments and rewards products
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$140-200k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make payments better for modern brands and their customers.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience building production backend systems (fintech experience a plus)
- You've built services that handle real money, real users, or real-time decisions: and you care about getting the details right
- Proficiency in Go (our primary backend language), or a similar language with willingness to ramp quickly
- Experience using AI tools (code assistants, MCP servers, agentic workflows) to accelerate development, or genuine enthusiasm to adopt them
- Experience ensuring data consistency and transactional integrity across distributed systems
- Strong with relational databases: schema design, migrations, and query performance tuning
- Comfortable designing API contracts consumed by both internal frontends and external partners
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling
- You've participated in on-call rotations and incident response, including root cause analysis
- You communicate clearly and collaborate naturally across product, design, and engineering teams
- You thrive in ambiguous environments and make pragmatic tradeoffs to keep shipping
- We don't expect every candidate to match every bullet. If you're excited about what we're building and confident you can contribute, we'd love to talk
What the job involves
- Own critical financial systems end-to-end: from transaction authorization and ledger accounting, to credit decisioning, to rewards engines and payment processing
- Build net-new products, not just maintain existing ones: as Imprint expands into new financial products and a deeper rewards platform, you'll design and ship systems that don't exist yet alongside improving the ones that do
- Contribute to foundational platform work: invest in shared services, API infrastructure, and developer tooling that make the entire engineering team faster and more reliable
- Leverage AI across the stack: from prototyping to testing to production code, learning how to leverage AI tools is a core consideration for how we work
- Work across a wide cross-functional surface: product, design, infrastructure, compliance, solutions engineering, and brand partners
- Move fast with real responsibility: this is a growing company where individuals drive impact, not a large org where you wait for alignment
- At the senior level, you may also lead system design for your team's projects and help onboard and develop other engineers
- Stack:
- Go, MySQL, DynamoDB, Temporal, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Statsig
Our take
These days, all sorts of cards abound, from virtual cards to co-branded credit cards. Imprint aims to stand out in the increasingly crowded space by partnering with businesses to provide branded rewards cards for customers.
While there has been an increase in the number of companies offering branded financial products to reduce costs, Imprint sees its card programs as offering a new platform for deepening customer relationships: less of the nastiness of credit and a much greater focus on rewards.
The startup is focusing on refining its embedded finance solution to fulfil its vision of an Apple-pay like experience for merchants and consumers.
Imprint will hope that its lightweight service, fit for smaller customers like hotel chains, will allow it to compete with the major venture-backed players in the space like Cardless, Apto and Alviere. And its $75M in venture capital raised in 2023 is going some way towards achieving these aims.
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Insights
103% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2025
$150m
SERIES D
Oct 2024
$75m
SERIES C
Total funding: $353m
Company HQ
Little Italy, New York, NY
Leadership
Daragh Murphy
(Founder & CEO)Previously VP of Operations & Strategy at WeWork. They were a Junior Partner at McKinsey until 2018. Originally trained as a Lawyer at Duke University, before working as a Corporate Lawyer at WilmerHale.
Mariana Pali Coontz
(COO & CFO)Prior to joining Imprint in 2023, Mariana was the Chief Financial and Operating Officer at DigniFi. They also spent 8 years at Synchrony in roles including Head of Capital Strategy & Stress Testing and SVP, Head of FP&A and nearly 11 years at JPMorgan Chase & Co in roles including Treasury Associate and Executive Director.
Will Larson
(CTO)Prior to joining Imprint in 2025, Will was the CTO at Carta and Calm. They were also the Head of Foundation Engineering at Stripe and a Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure at Uber.
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