Mid-Level Full Stack Engineer - Backend Focused

About this role

<p>It’s time that payments work for merchants, not the other way around. Ansa is building a branded wallet solution to increase customer retention and unlock new growth opportunities.</p> <p>Ansa helps innovative and growing companies by providing an enterprise-grade, white-label stored value wallet platform paired with incentive tooling. Our platform enables our customers to turn stored value and loyalty programs into a powerful growth engine that increases customer retention, drives repeat purchases, and boosts margins, all without the cost and complexity of building it in-house.</p> <p>We’re seeking a Backend Engineer who wants end-to-end ownership of core backend systems and the chance to have an outsized impact on a product used by fast-growing consumer brands. You’ll make meaningful architectural decisions and work closely with leadership to influence both product and technical strategy. Does this sound like you? Let's chat!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div>🤔 What you will be doing?</div> <div> <ul> <li>Scale our core ledger that tracks both digital and physical money movement.</li> <li>Scale our card network integrations that power in-store payments.</li> <li>Build and maintain complex reconciliation infrastructure to make sure we never lose a cent across our partner bank, payment processors, merchants, and card networks.</li> <li>Build and scale our financial reporting &amp; accounting integrations that allow our merchants to close their books seamlessly.</li> <li>Design and maintain our payment APIs and SDKs that make for frictionless integration.</li> <li>Design and build features that prime us for enterprise-readiness, including SSO and RBAC.</li> <li>Design and ship products that help merchants drive end-user adoption and engagement, creating a flywheel of user spend (i.e. our incentives engine and analytics).</li> <li>Scale up our cloud infrastructure as we move towards fully containerized, blue-green deployment.</li> <li>Own end-to-end design, implementation, and release of features.</li> <li>Design and implement engineering processes.</li> <li>Prototype new ideas and iterate towards the ideal user experience.</li> <li>Contribute to our engineering infrastructure.</li> <li>Help grow our engineering team 🎉</li> </ul> <p>👋🏼 About you</p> <ul> <li>You have 2+ years of experience independently owning and driving scalable, impactful projects end to end.</li> <li>Based in the SF Bay Area (or willing to relocate!) and excited about working closely in-person with a tight-knit team.</li> <li>Innately curious and brave enough to consider new payment paradigms or verticals for applications, can navigate low information environments.</li> <li>Execution oriented, excited by the high-ownership nature of joining a team at this stage.</li> <li>Interested in building a top class engineering culture from the ground up.</li> <li>Appreciates and looks for elegant solutions but understands trade-offs of robust designs/engineering vs. moving fast.</li> <li>Experience building fast, reliable cloud applications.</li> </ul> <p>😊 Nice to haves&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Operated at a growth stage startup before.</li> <li>Familiarity with Golang web frameworks, AWS, Postgres.</li> <li>Experience in building one of these areas: core ledgers, money movement platforms/services, and merchant facing APIs for in-app/online POS.</li> <li>Bonus points if you have experience in mentoring other team members, and have previously worked closely with designers.</li> </ul> <p>🎉 Our culture</p> <p>We’re a small team with a big mission. That means we have to hold ourselves to a high bar, by design. With limited resources and high ambition, excellence in quality, communication, and ownership, ambition isn’t optional — it’s how we move forward.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Ownership</strong>&nbsp;— if you see it, you take it. We don’t wait to be told.</li> <li><strong>Nosiness</strong>&nbsp;— curiosity across boundaries, asking questions, stepping beyond scope to solve problems.</li> <li><strong>High agency</strong>&nbsp;— proactive and self-directed. You move the work, not the other way around.</li> <li><strong>Accountability</strong>&nbsp;— we do what we say, and communicate proactively</li> <li><strong>Relentless drive</strong>&nbsp;— we work with focused intensity and follow through, even when it’s hard.</li> <li><strong>Thoughtful execution</strong>&nbsp;— shipping work that’s not just fast, but intentional. Think about how decisions today will affect us down the road.</li> <li><strong>Pride in your craft</strong>&nbsp;— we sweat the details and take our work personally, because it reflects who we are.</li> <li><strong>Kindness and trust</strong>&nbsp;— we give each other respect, empathy, and the benefit of the doubt. We assume good intent and act like teammates.</li> </ul> <p>🥞 Benefits</p> <ul> <li>Stellar health, dental, vision insurance coverage, including fertility benefits and One Medical.</li> <li>Unlimited PTO and observed local holidays.</li> <li>We also offer 401(k), healthcare FSA, and dependent care FSA to fit your needs.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div>