Senior Backend Engineer

A Bit About Anchor:

At Anchor, we are reinventing how businesses manage their revenue — freeing them from the burden of billing and collections so they can focus on growth (and maybe even sleep better at night).

Backed by top investors including Mosaic General Partnership, Zeev Ventures, Entree Capital, and industry leaders like Amy Banse (Adobe, ON Running), Tien Tzuo (Zuora), and even NBA superstar Andre Iguodala, we’re making payments effortless so businesses can scale instead of chasing invoices.

The Role:

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be part of our core team, building and scaling an event-driven platform that businesses rely on daily. You’ll design and implement services in Go, work closely with product and other engineers, and make thoughtful trade-offs that balance speed, quality, and scalability. This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and have a direct impact on how businesses worldwide get paid.

What You'll Do:

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, resilient APIs and backend services.
• Develop maintainable and clean code with strong testing practices.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver robust solutions.
• Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance business priorities and long-term sustainability.
• Contribute to our engineering culture by sharing knowledge and raising the bar for technical excellence.
• Research and experiment with new tools, patterns, and technologies that can improve our systems.

What We’re Looking For:

• 6+ years of experience as a backend engineer.
• Strong hands-on experience in Go - advantage
• Solid understanding of web development practices, microservices, and event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with Postgres, Neo4j, NATS, RabbitMQ, and cloud providers (GCP/AWS) — or eagerness to learn them quickly.
• Experience with modern development practices such as TDD, CI/CD, and agile methodologies.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a product-focused mindset.
• B.Sc. in Computer Science (or equivalent).

Bonus Points For:

• Experience in startups, SaaS, or fintech/payments.
• Background in B2B or B2B2C platforms.
• Prior work designing or leading software projects end-to-end.
• Curiosity that sometimes leads to juggling at least three flaming chainsaws while riding a unicycle (metaphorically, but we won’t judge if literally).