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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 26 days Phizenix's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Phizenix's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Phizenix
- high 7 stale, 0 reposted of 13 open
- Hiring momentum
- 31 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Phizenix's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Phizenix.
About this role
The Senior Staff Backend Engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining the core services that handle data-intensive computations for a financial platform. This involves building a composable library of reusable components, ensuring the correctness and traceability of results, and working closely with enterprise customers to integrate the platform into their environments. The role emphasizes accountability for the performance, reliability, and auditability of these services while also mentoring the backend team and setting technical patterns.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Phizenix as an employer.
What you need
- Eight or more years in backend engineering, in Python, Go, Java, or similar, with significant Staff-level time owning complex, data-intensive systems.
- An obsession with correctness, traceability, and testability.
- Elite SQL and data modeling skills, including window functions and large-scale joins.
- Experience designing configuration-driven, extensible service architectures.
- Strong system design for reliability, isolation, and reproducibility.
- Direct experience working with customers or external stakeholders in a technical capacity.
Nice to have
- Experience in finance, accounting, or analytics domain, or a willingness to learn about financial statements.
- Familiarity with dbt and multi-tenant customer-hosted deployment at scale.
- Exposure to ML and statistical workflows and LLM application patterns.
- Experience building auditable systems in a regulated environment.
- Background in forward deployment, professional services, or solutions engineering at a product company.
Worth weighing
- No salary listed in the posting.
- The role involves significant customer-facing work, which may require travel.
- The position emphasizes accountability for correctness and performance, which may lead to high pressure in ensuring results meet strict standards.
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Listed by Phizenix on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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