Software Engineer, Backend (Remote, United States)

About Butter Payments

At Butter Payments, we’re on a mission to eliminate involuntary churn and make recurring payments seamless. Every year, billions of dollars are lost due to failed payments. Butter leverages machine learning, deep financial data partnerships, and behavioral insights to ensure the right payments go through at the right time—without friction. We're backed by world-class investors like Atomic & Norwest Venture Partners, and we're growing fast.

Summary:

In this role you’ll use your unique combination of data engineering and backend software development expertise to solve business problems. As part of the Engineering team, you’ll build data heavy applications that directly provide value to our customers, internal and external.

Who We’re Looking For:

We’re looking for someone who understands data engineering and can combine that knowledge with software engineering experience to build systems where producing and managing data is the first-class concern.

What You’ll Do:

Build backend applications that interact with a variety of disparate APIs and data sources.
Develop and grow client facing APIs that are flexible but standardize the data passed to them in a clean and consistent way.
Orchestrate asynchronous workflows using technologies such as Temporal.
Collaborate with data engineering, machine learning, and analytics teams to ensure that the data our applications are producing scales to meet needs across the company.
Build data models into our applications that transpose the messy data of the outside world into clean data our applications can operate on.
Develop and operate software in production.

What You Have:

5+ years of professional experience between data engineering and software engineering roles
You’ve worked with Python and SQL in a previous role
You’ve worked with cloud based systems such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
You have experience writing and operating software in production
Strong analytical, problem solving, communication, and debugging skills
Can respond iteratively and rapidly to changes in business requirements

Nice To Have:

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
You have API design experience
Experience working in high-growth fintech or payments startups
Experience building systems with a State Machine architecture
Bonus points for Temporal or AWS Step Functions experience

Engineering Philosophies:

Data outlives code
Technology is strategic for the business
Simplicity over complexity
Embrace hard conversations

Our Tech Stack:

AWS, Python, Kubernetes (EKS), Github Actions, Terraform, CockroachDB, Snowflake, Kafka, DataDog