About the role

Build and maintain scalable backend systems.
Contribute to system architecture for performance.
Collaborate to ensure technical alignment with business.
Promote engineering best practices like code reviews.
Direct exposure to leadership and product direction.

Skills the posting asks for

Ruby
React
AWS
Terraform

Summarised from the employer’s posting, which is reproduced in full below.

The employer’s full posting

Senior Software Engineer

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $140,000–$180,000

Location: Hybrid / Onsite – Austin, Texas

Company Overview: A Series A venture-backed startup is building a suite of financial tools designed to bring greater flexibility and transparency to a historically underserved market. The company supports both individuals and businesses through a platform that simplifies key financial and operational workflows.

Founded by experienced operators with prior startup success, the team is backed by top-tier fintech and consumer tech investors. The company is entering a new phase of growth and is expanding its engineering team to support increased demand and an ambitious product roadmap.

Role Overview: The Senior Software Engineer will play a key role in designing and scaling the platform’s core systems. This is a high-impact position with direct exposure to leadership and an opportunity to contribute meaningfully to product direction, technical standards, and team culture.

Location: Candidates must be based in Austin, TX, as the product and leadership teams operate locally in a hybrid or in-office model.

Key Responsibilities

Build and maintain scalable backend systems and user-facing products
Contribute to evolving system architecture with a focus on performance and reliability
Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure technical work aligns with business needs
Promote engineering best practices, including code reviews, testing, and documentation

Ideal Qualifications

5+ years of professional experience in software engineering
Strong backend experience, ideally with Ruby or similar languages
Familiarity with React or other modern frontend frameworks is a plus
Experience with infrastructure tools like AWS and Terraform is a bonus