Tabby
Tabby
201 – 500 Employees
eCommerceFintech
Tabby is a fintech and eCommerce company that develops payment solutions for more flexible shopping. Its service lets customers divide eligible purchases into four interest-free monthly payments and includes an app for discovering products, brands, and deals across categories such as fashion, beauty, and electronics. Tabby also provides commerce tools designed to help businesses reduce price barriers and increase sales, while Tabby Care supports returns and payment holds when purchase issues arise. The service integrates with Visa to support broad merchant acceptance.

Staff Backend Engineer

Shape shared backend systems, developer tools, and security capabilities for Tabby’s global fintech platform. Lead complex engineering initiatives across a distributed organization.

Description

  • Set the technical direction for Core Backend, developing shared services, libraries, and developer tools used across Tabby.
  • Turn recurring cross-team challenges into reusable solutions that strengthen developer productivity, reliability, and security.
  • Lead the design and development of shared backend capabilities, including event-driven communication, application-level encryption, and sensitive-data protection.
  • Build internal engineering tools such as the Service Catalog, API Registry, SLO platform, and AI-assisted development tools.
  • Take complex initiatives from discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and production validation, coordinating across engineers and teams.
  • Partner with teams using these tools to understand their needs, support integrations and migrations, and apply feedback to improve them.
  • Work hands-on with Go, test performance and failure scenarios, and build observability and recovery mechanisms into dependent systems.
  • Strengthen engineering practices through architecture reviews, technical decisions, mentoring, and documentation.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of backend engineering experience, including building and operating production systems at scale.
  • Strong Go skills and a record of remaining hands-on in senior technical roles.
  • Deep expertise in distributed, high-load systems.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, GitLab, and microservices.
  • Demonstrated ownership of complex initiatives from design through production, including architecture and technology decisions with lasting impact.
  • Strong understanding of quality, security, observability, and operational excellence.
  • Experience integrating third-party APIs and contributing to product development.
  • Ability to influence decisions across teams and explain technical topics clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across a team or organization.
  • Strong English communication skills.
  • A proactive, independent approach to ambiguous problems.

Benefits

  • Full-time B2B contract.
  • Fully remote work.
  • Up to 20% tax allowance.
  • 22 paid leave days per year.
  • Stock options through an employee stock ownership plan at a fast-growing, pre-IPO company.
  • Flexible benefits for wellness, travel, or learning.
  • Work with an international engineering team at a global fintech unicorn.
  • Relocation support to hubs in Armenia, Georgia, Serbia, Portugal, and Spain, including flights, temporary accommodation, and legal setup.

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