Full Stack Engineer - Backend Focused

<div> <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> </p> </div> <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 & 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 6+ 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 </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