# Senior Backend Engineer, Fintech at Nitra

- Company: Nitra
- What the company does: Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://www.nitra.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $175K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-19
- Apply by: 2026-12-03
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/nitra/74660e5a-00e6-485e-b46f-2e18732ba5cb?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nitra-senior-backend-engineer-fintech/

## About the role

Design and build the core banking infrastructure, including account opening, balances, statements, and backend APIs. Build and maintain money movement capabilities across US payment rails, including ACH, wires, RTP, and FedNow. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with strong Node.js/TypeScript skills or experience in a comparable backend language, and proficiency in PostgreSQL
- 3+ years of experience building production fintech products across payments, cards, spend management, lending, banking, or financial software
- A track record of designing and building financial systems, with hands-on ownership of architecture decisions involving money movement, ledgers, or transaction processing
- Strong system design skills, particularly around financial correctness, idempotency, event ordering, retries, audit trails, reconciliation, and safe backfills
- Experience integrating with third-party financial platforms, such as payment processors, card issuers, sponsor banks, or accounting systems
- The ability to build new products from specification through production in an ambiguous environment, with clear technical documentation and proactive risk identification

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nitra-senior-backend-engineer-fintech/