Backend Engineer

Reposted 2 Days Ago
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2 Locations
Hybrid
Mid level
AdTech • Fintech • Financial Services
The most trusted and comprehensive source for live purchase data.
The Role
As a Backend Engineer at Attain, you'll build scalable microservices, create APIs, and collaborate with teams to enhance financial services using modern technologies.
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About Attain

Built for consumers and companies, alike. In a world driven by data, we believe consumers and businesses can coexist. Our founders had a vision to empower consumers to leverage their greatest asset—their data—in exchange for modern financial services. Built with this vision in mind, our platform allows consumers to access savings tools, earned wages and rewards without cost or hidden fees. In exchange, they give permission to use their real-time data for research, insights and targeted advertising.

At Attain, your contribution will help us build a more equitable and efficient data sharing ecosystem—whether helping consumers access modern financial services or businesses leverage data to achieve better outcomes. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with hands-on leaders and mission-driven individuals everyday.

Our Backend Engineering team builds scalable, reliable systems that power both consumer-facing products and B2B solutions across Attain, ensuring seamless experiences and secure, high-performance integrations.

Attain Office Hybrid Schedule (where applicable): 

  • Redwood City, CA: Mondays (in-office for stand-ups, all-hands) and choice of three days between Tues-Friday
  • Chicago, IL & New York, NY: 4 days in-office; 1 day remote
You’ll be a great fit for the role if
  • You are excited to build microservices using Rust
  • You have a willingness to learn and teach in a collaborative environment
  • You’re eager to leverage and develop using AI tools 
  • You’ve been complimented on how well you participate in an open feedback environment

What your day to day will look like

  • Use new and modern technology to build new features and services across our microservice architecture
  • Write thoughtful & quality code that is readable, testable, and easily maintainable
  • Create data-driven and stable APIs for our mobile apps to consume
  • Strive for excellent development practices and careful code architecture that is built around rapid releases
  • Work cross-functionally with all mobile and backend engineers, and product teams to consistently release high-quality, customer-focused features
  • Adhere to, and improve upon, our agile process through requirement documents, sprint retrospectives, and other regular cadence meetings

Preferred Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience building backend services
  • Experience in the financial tech or ad-tech industry is a plus
  • Microservice or Service-oriented Architecture
  • Experience using gRPC, protobuf, or GraphQL
  • Experience with working with relational databases
  • Experience with message queues or event streams
  • Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure

We’re excited to hear from you. 

At Attain, we are passionate about finding people to continuously help us grow our organization. We encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t match every detail of the job description. If we don’t see something that immediately fits, we will keep your resume on file for future opportunities.

Top Skills

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Azure
GCP
GraphQL
Grpc
Protobuf
Rust

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
146 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Attain is the most trusted and comprehensive source for permissioned, real-time purchase data in the United States. By connecting directly with over 10 million consumers, Attain delivers unmatched accuracy and scale across audience activation, insights, and in-flight optimization, and measurement, helping marketers tie every dollar of media to real-world sales outcomes. Attain’s portfolio of owned and operated apps, spanning financial wellness and shopping rewards, empowers consumers to receive everyday value in exchange for the explicit permission to use their data for research, insights, and targeted advertising.

Why Work With Us

At Attain, your contribution will help us build a more equitable and efficient data sharing ecosystem—whether helping consumers access modern financial services or businesses leverage data to achieve better outcomes. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with hands-on leaders and mission-driven individuals everyday.

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Attain Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Hybrid, we love to have the team in person because we pride ourselves on our amazing people, but understand that the world has changed. We have flexibility and always focus on our employees health and well-being.

Typical time on-site: 4 days a week
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