Fijoya- Backend Developer

Description:

About Fijoya

Fijoya builds modern infrastructure for benefits and healthcare payments, sitting at the intersection of fintech, healthcare, and employee benefits. We’re a fast-moving startup focused on reducing complexity and improving how people pay for coverage.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own backend systems powering complex, LLM-driven, and agentic product experiences.
• Architect and implement scalable, reliable backend services for production use.
• Work closely with product, data, and engineering to translate ambiguous requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Design systems that balance performance, cost, reliability, and iteration speed.
• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and production reliability.
• Drive best practices around code quality, testing, observability, and security.
• Take technical ownership of critical systems and guide architectural decisions.

• 3+ years of professional backend engineering experience, including production systems at scale.
• Proven experience building and operating customer-facing, LLM and agent-based applications in production.
• Experience designing and implementing complex backend logic and stateful workflows.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based architectures and scalable backend infrastructure.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows.
• Experience scaling backend systems to support growing usage and evolving product requirements.
• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working with ambiguity and fast iteration.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across disciplines.

Nice to have

• Experience working on user interfaces for both web and mobile applications.
• Familiarity with the fintech domain, including payments, financial workflows, or transaction-based systems.
• Experience working with data, including analytics, data pipelines, experimentation, or data-driven decision-making.