Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Product Engineering

Imprint is reimagining co-branded credit cards & financial products to be smarter, more rewarding, and truly brand-first. We partner with companies like H-E-B, Turkish Airlines, Brooks Brothers, and Eddie Bauer to launch modern credit programs that deepen loyalty, unlock savings, and drive growth. Our platform combines advanced payments infrastructure, intelligent underwriting, and seamless UX to help brands offer powerful financial products—without becoming a bank.

Co-branded cards account for over $300 billion in U.S. annual spend—but most are still powered by legacy banks. Imprint is the modern alternative: flexible, tech-forward, and built for today’s consumer. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital, and Khosla Ventures, we’re building a world-class team to redefine how people pay—and how brands grow. If you want to work fast, solve hard problems, and make a real impact, we’d love to meet you.

The Spend Team powers the core functionality that cardholders experience after joining Imprint, creating the software that makes our app truly exceptional. We develop sophisticated rewards configurations, seamless API partner integrations, and SDKs that extend our polished user experience across platforms. Our commitment to building secure, scalable, and thoroughly tested code powers complex reward redemption flows that respond intelligently to user transaction patterns over time. We participate in architectural planning while consistently contributing innovative ideas that enhance the daily cardholder experience, increase revenue opportunities, and support business growth.

The team takes pride in delivering solutions that are best-in-class throughout the customer journey, from account management to rewards redemption, with an unwavering focus on creating positive experiences for existing cardholders.

For this role, you will have the option to work fully remote or hybrid work format, working from either our San Francisco, Seattle or New York offices.

As the staff engineer of this team, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:

• Build and scale backend services that power the core functionality of the Imprint Spend experience, including dynamic rewards configurations, intelligent redemption flows, and seamless API and SDK integrations.

• Design and implement secure, performant, and highly available systems that respond in real-time to user transaction patterns.

• Write clean, well-tested code and participate in code reviews to maintain high engineering standards across the team.

• Own projects end-to-end: from technical scoping and architecture discussions through to deployment, monitoring, and ongoing iteration.

• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers across the stack to ship features that meaningfully improve the cardholder experience.

• Contribute to the technical roadmap by identifying areas for improvement, suggesting new ideas, and helping evolve system architecture to support growth.

• Continuously improve reliability, observability, and developer tooling to support a world-class platform.

• Stay current on backend technologies and share learnings with the team through mentorship, pairing, and design reviews.

• Work with technologies like Go, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases, REST and gRPC APIs.

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering

• 5+ years of proven experience working on Product Engineering teams building consumer facing products

• 3+ years of experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems

• 3+ years of strong background in developing, testing and validating financial platforms, preferably with expertise in ledger technology.

• Track record of building and delivering mission-critical, 24x7 production software systems

• Excellent project management and communication skills.

• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills

• Familiarity with agile development methodologies.

• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

• Expert level Golang experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science.

• Competitive compensation and equity packages

• Leading configured work computers of your choice

• Flexible paid time off

• Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage

• Additional health coverage includes access to One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents

• An understanding that successful hybrid work requires flexibility and an appreciation for asynchronous work

• Access to industry-leading technology across all of our business units, stemming from our philosophy that we should invest in resources for our team that foster innovation, optimization, and productivity

Imprint is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Imprint is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Imprint welcomes talented individuals from all backgrounds who want to build the future of payments and rewards. If you are passionate about FinTech and eager to grow, let’s move the world forward, together.