Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer (Product Engineering)

Remote

Eastern Hemisphere (timezone overlap required) #APJ #EMEA

FINN is a fintech company building simple and transparent products that improve financial well-being for underbanked employees. Our core offering gives people access to wages they have already earned, alongside tools to help them manage money better, build savings, access insurance, earn additional income, and use fairer financial services.

Founded in 2022, FINN is the largest player in the early wage access space in Southeast Asia and is expanding rapidly into new markets globally. We are looking for ambitious builders who take ownership, move fast, and want to shape products that create meaningful impact in people’s lives.

This is a high-ownership IC role. You'll report to a Backend Lead and work within a \~20-person backend team organized into domain-driven squads, shipping services end-to-end — from core APIs to automation pipelines and cloud infrastructure.

Build and ship backend services that power our financial products — APIs, automation pipelines, and cloud infrastructureOwn features end-to-end: dig into the problem, design the approach, ship fast, and iterate based on real usageContribute to technical direction — advocate for better patterns, tooling, and developer experiencePartner with product and engineering to define solutions, not just execute specsWrite clean, reliable code at a high pace — quality and speed, not one or the otherRaise the bar for the team through code reviews, technical input, and leading by example

How we work

We're a small team that values clear thinking over heavy process. Engineers get real context on the "why" and autonomy on the "how." We ship frequently, learn from production, and make pragmatic tradeoffs. We plan enough to move confidently — but never so much that we slow down.

AI in our workflow

AI is becoming core to how we build. We use LLMs daily for coding, debugging, automated code reviews, design doc reviews, and we're building internal tooling to push this further in and out of the Engineering team. We expect engineers to use AI as a force multiplier in their daily work — and to contribute ideas on how we can do it better.

What we're looking for

5+ years shipping backend systems in production — APIs, services, cloud infrastructureStrong fundamentals in at least one of our core languages (TypeScript, Python, PHP)Experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP), containerization, and CI/CDAbility to operate independently: you take ownership of a problem and drive it forwardPragmatic judgment on architecture vs. shipping and learningClear communicator who can articulate tradeoffs and advocate for their approach

Our stack is TypeScript, Python, and PHP across AWS and GCP (Lambda, Cloud Functions, Firebase, Firestore). Strong engineers from other languages or cloud providers ramp quickly — we care more about fundamentals than specific stack experience.

This role probably isn't for you if

You aren't comfortable with some level of ambiguityYou default to large rewrites when the problem needs solving in daysYou optimize for architectural purity over learning from real usersYou need a lot of structure or guidance to do your best work

Why join

Your work directly shapes the product experience for hundreds of thousands of usersSmall, high-caliber team — minimal bureaucracy, fast feedback loops, clear business impactHigh autonomy and real ownership from day oneA seat at the table in defining how backend engineering evolves here