Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tilt is a company that is revolutionizing access to financial products through machine learning-powered credit models. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will shape the technical direction of solutions, lead product initiatives, and mentor other engineers while ensuring the reliability and performance of server applications.
Responsibilities
- Identify opportunities to foster optimal product direction, collaborate closely with business stakeholders to streamline and simplify designs, and proactively identify areas of risk and tradeoffs that can be enhanced
- Ownership of technical initiatives, being accountable for the initiative's outcome, managing and executing the project, designing the solution and defining its requirements, reporting on the initiative's progress, and coordinating resources
- Perform as a lead technical interviewer
- Lead technical reviewer of Tilt Engineering blog posts
- Mentor Engineers up to and including Senior levels
- Lead SEV1 and lower incident response through to resolution
- Lead engineering of large scale and complex product initiatives
- Culture leader across the engineering organization, delivery team and platform team
Skills
- 7+ years developing web APIs within .NET (C#)
- Experience building resilient financial systems with state machine logic and complex lifecycles
- Ability to balance immediate business needs with long-term architectural considerations
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, queue-based architectures, and data-intensive applications
- Experience scaling consumer-facing products with significant transaction volumes
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product, risk, and operational teams
- Comfort making decisions with incomplete information and adapting as new data emerges
- Skill in mentoring and elevating the capabilities of other engineers
- Able to effectively leverage AI-powered development tools (e.g., Cursor, Augment, Factory) to enhance productivity, code quality, and collaboration
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Virtual-first teamwork: The Tilt team is collaborating across 14 countries, 12 time zones, and counting. You’ll get started with a WFH office reimbursement.
- Competitive pay: We're big on potential, and it's reflected in our competitive compensation packages and generous equity.
- Complete support: Find flexible health plans at every premium level, and substantial subsidies that stand up to global standards.
- Visibility is yours: You can count on direct exposure to our leadership team — we’re a team where good ideas travel quickly.
- Paid global onsites: Magic happens IRL: we gather twice yearly to reconnect over shared meals or kayaking adventures. (We’ve visited Vail, San Diego, and Mexico City, to name a few.)
- Impact is recognized: Growth opportunities follow your contributions, not rigid promotion timelines.
Company Overview
At Tilt, we see a side of people that traditional lenders miss. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.tilt.com.