Backend Engineer - SDE I

Nium, the Leader in Real-Time Global Payments

At Nium, we operate at the intersection of an increasingly interconnected world, where the traditional finance industry has been disrupted, and on-demand is in demand. Our payments infrastructure is leading a transformation in payments, enabling anyone, anywhere to make and receive payments instantly, regardless of the location or currency. We currently support:

• Regulatory Licenses and Authorizations in 40+ Countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance
• 190+ Pay Out Markets – 100+ in real time
• 35+ Pay In Markets
• 30+ Card Issuance Markets
• 100+ Supported Currencies
  
  
  

Today, Nium is the leader in real-time global payments and the fastest way to send money across borders. We are co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with regional offices in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lithuania, London, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, and UAE.

Nium's Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining the company's global financial infrastructure. We are a team of talented engineers who are passionate about creating innovative and scalable solutions that help Nium deliver on its mission of making money movement seamless and borderless.

Your Next Exciting Role

Our ideal candidate has deep experience in building scalable and reliable backend systems, services and APIs that deliver value to our customers. This role will make impactful contributions and will proactively identify gaps and future work for the team.

What would a day @Nium look like?

• Deliver and own large features end-to-end
• Collaborate with our product team to deliver high impact for our customers
• Proactively identify ways to monitor the quality, reliability, and security of our systems
• Abide by engineering best practices
  
  
  

Which Skills & Experiences will make you successful?

• 1-2 years of backend engineering experience, recommended not required.
• Experience building and operating highly available backend distributed systems
• Proficiency in at least one of Java, Python, C++, C#, Golang
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment
• Passion for turning business and product ideas into engineering solutions
  
  
  

$120,000 - $160,000 a year

Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location. Certain roles may offer additional incentives including but not limited to equity and bonus. Your recruiter is happy to share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors at any stage of the hiring process!

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What We Offer At Nium

We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, uncapped sales commissions and robust performance reviews, we ensure that all employees are rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.

We Care for Our Employees: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. In addition to many other benefits, we offer medical coverage, 24/7 employee assistance program, generous time off policies, and a year-end shut down. We also provide a hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).

We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, always want to learn more and upskill ourselves. As well as role-specific training, we also offer a global learning stipend.

We Constantly Innovate: Nium continues to be globally recognized for its constant innovations, growth, and employee-centric mindset since our inception:

• 2022 Great Place To Work Certification
• 2023 CB Insights Fintech 100 List of Most Promising Fintech Companies .
  
  
  

We Celebrate Together: Work is also about having fun with your colleagues and forging deep relationships. We host company-wide social events onsite and virtually, provide team morale budget and bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!

We Thrive with Diversity: Across 33 nationalities and 18+ countries, our diverse and multicultural team embodies our commitment to a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.

What It’s Like To Be a Nium'er

At Nium we center our way of work around 3 core values globally:

#KeepItSimple: We cut through complexity, simplify at speed and operate with scale in mind.

#MakeItBetter: We build innovative solutions that make our customers' lives better.

#WinItTogether: We win in this competitive market by collaborating as one team.

For more information, visit www.nium.com .

Nium provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Nium complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Nium expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.