Product Engineer - Backend

About the Role

At Promise, we’re building technology that helps families stay afloat—offering flexible, affordable payment solutions that turn financial stress into stability. As a Product Engineer, you’ll design and scale the systems that make this mission possible.

You’ll spend most of your time hands-on with code, crafting robust microservices and distributed systems, while also mentoring teammates and shaping our engineering culture. This is a role for someone who loves to solve complex problems at scale, thrives in collaborative environments, and wants their work to have real-world impact.

What You’ll Do

• Build with impact: Architect and implement scalable backend services that power our payments and financial products.
• Code forward: Write and ship clean, maintainable, production-ready code.
• Keep systems strong: Monitor, debug, and optimize distributed systems to ensure reliability and high availability.
• Level up the team: Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of learning, ownership, and engineering excellence.
• Collaborate deeply: Work with infrastructure, product, and frontend teams to deliver reliable end-to-end solutions.

What Will Help You Succeed

• Experience: 3+ years developing production software with a focus on backend systems.
• Systems expertise: Passion for building and debugging large-scale distributed systems.
• Cloud fluency: Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or similar cloud platforms.
• Mindset: Curious, autonomous, and accountable—with a drive to own problems end-to-end.
• Bonus: Experience in payments or fintech environments.

Who Thrives at PromiseYou’ll love it here if

• You are energized by big, complex challenges and the opportunity to solve them.
• You want your work to have a real, measurable impact on people’s lives.
• You take ownership and run toward problems, not away from them.
• You value clear, candid, and constructive communication.

Promise is not for you if

• You prefer hierarchy and rigid structures. We operate with freedom and responsibility.
• You are uncomfortable with change. We move fast, adapt often, and expect agility.
• You want a typical corporate culture. We are mission-driven, ambitious, and direct.
• You believe efficiency means “doing less.” We believe efficiency means doing better.