Staff Backend Engineer, Notabene

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior or staff-level backend engineering role
• 3+ years of professional experience with Node.js, including building production-grade applications
• Strong experience with Kafka, including topics, partitions, producers, and consumers
• Expertise in event-driven microservices development
• A proven track record in building and optimizing high-throughput, distributed systems
• Extensive experience with PostgreSQL, SQL optimization, and architecting high-throughput transactional databases
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing services on AWS, with a solid understanding of container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker
• Strong understanding of security principles, particularly around secure data handling, encryption, and best practices in financial or transactional data systems
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently in a global, remote-first company
• Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and departments

Desirable

• As a Staff Backend Engineer at Notabene, you'll be pivotal in shaping how crypto transactions are securely cleared and settled at scale worldwide
• You’ll be joining the transactions team, a critical component of the Notabene Platform responsible for the reliable processing of high-throughput transaction data globally
• In this role, you will architect, build, and maintain our core transaction-processing services, driving the platform's scalability, reliability, and performance to handle the growing volume and emerging crypto use cases
• As a Staff Engineer, you’ll be instrumental in setting technical direction, mentoring team members, and ensuring our architecture is optimized to meet the needs of a constantly changing and fast-paced market
• Design, build, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency microservices for our Transactions team, contributing directly to Notabene’s secure and reliable transaction authorization platform
• Work closely with product, engineering, compliance, and customer-facing teams to gather requirements align on technical feasibility, and prioritize projects that maximize value to our customers
• Develop and execute the Transactions team roadmap aligning with business priorities and strategic objectives
• Scope and drive large-scale technical projects end-to-end, from inception through deployment, and delivering ongoing improvements to scalability and performance
• Mentor and support engineers throughout the Notabene engineering organization