Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Payments

Who We Are

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.

Location

This role will be a hybrid work format, with time split between working remotely and working onsite from either our San Francisco or New York offices, 2-3 days a week as required by your manager.

What You'll Do

• Build features that directly affect user experience, including but not limited to card application, payment processing, credit profile modeling, fraud detection, and general ledger. 

• Responsible for the architecture design and implementation of the banking distributed systems

• Guide technical decision-making and help to choose technical solutions that will scale both with the company and our user base

• Work with our leadership team to craft a diverse engineering culture that is both inclusive and innovative

• Work closely with the product and design team to craft a perfect experience for our customers

• Work with technologies such as AWS, Go, Python, gRPC, Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka, NoSQL and SQL databases

What We Look For

• 5+ years of software development experience

• 5+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or Go including object-oriented design

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

• 1+ years of experience on leading the system design 

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability

• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

Nice to Have

• Experience in building payments-related products

• Experience in building high-scale distributed systems that handle big amounts of data

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

• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills

• Open-source project experiences

Perks & Benefits

• 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 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.