Senior Backend Engineer | On-Site | Seattle
Grid · Seattle, WA
$120,000–$200,000
Jul 1, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend engineering role focused on building and maintaining core financial systems — including transaction processing, financial ledgers, payment infrastructure, and event-driven distributed services. The work spans the full backend stack (Go on GCP, with tools like BigQuery, MySQL, and Spanner) and involves owning services from design through production. Suited to engineers comfortable with high autonomy, data-informed development, and iterative delivery in a startup environment.
Mid level · National · Full-time
Pay in the description: $120,000–$200,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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No location is specified in the posting; the work location and remote eligibility are unclear. Remote is set to false as a conservative default, but this role may be remote or hybrid.
The title is simply 'Backend Engineer' with no level modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The requirements describe real production backend experience but impose no minimum years, pointing to a Mid-level pool (though the $120K–$200K range spans Mid through Senior).
Go and GCP are called out with firm language ('ideally in Go on cloud infrastructure like GCP') in the core requirements section; 'ideally' introduces a mild preference qualifier for GCP specifically, but both are treated as hard gates given the overall framing and the fact that the entire stack runs on GCP/Go.
SQL is explicitly called out as a required tool under 'What You'll Do' ('You'll use SQL and analytical tools').
MySQL, BigQuery, Spanner, Pub/Sub, CI/CD, Protobuf, and LLMs (AI tooling) appear in the tech-stack narrative or 'Who You Are' context sections rather than a formal requirements block, so they are marked preferred.
No minimum total years of experience is stated anywhere in the posting.
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