Back-End Engineer (Fintech)

About Deel

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that drives continuous learning and innovation for our customers.

Why Join Deel?

As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities. We're not just building software; we're creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are.

Our momentum is reflected in our achievements and customer satisfaction: CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Fast 500, and repeated recognition on Y Combinator’s top companies list – all while maintaining a 4.83 average rating from 15,000 reviews across G2, Trustpilot, Captera, Apple and Google.

Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator. At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives. With our momentum—backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—you'll drive meaningful impact while building expertise that makes you a sought-after leader in the transformation of global work.

Building Deel's Financial Infrastructure

Deel is building the future of work. As part of that mission, we’re building our own financial infrastructure - including a global, cross-border payment system. We already process billions of dollars in payouts annually, empowering hundreds of thousands of workers and serving tens of thousands of businesses worldwide, including Nike, Klarna, Reebok, and Forever21. Now, we’re doubling down on building native financial rails to support payroll, treasury, and compliance at scale — from onboarding to settlement and look for talent to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate in a Cross-Functional Team: Work closely with Frontend Engineers, Product Teams, Designers, and QA professionals to create seamless experiences.
• Participate in Product Planning: From discovery to deployment, we value your input throughout all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Develop and Enhance Features: Collaborate to develop robust new features, APIs, and continuously improve our industry-leading products. Help find and fix bugs at “Deel Speed.”
• Provide an Exceptional, Customer-Centric Experience: Ensure top-tier products and services through quality engineering and attentive, customer-focused development.
• Solve complex fintech problems: Build modern, resilient systems that power Deel’s financial infrastructure at global scale.
• Build at scale: Design and evolve APIs, services, and infrastructure to support high-transaction volumes.

Must Have Experience

• Professional experience in fintech or financial domains: e.g., payments, accounting, exchanges, banking, or crypto.
• Worked in or built systems for companies like Wise, PayPal, Stripe, Adyen, Coinbase, Revolut, or similar.
• Familiarity with compliance-sensitive environments: KYC (Know Your Customer), AML (Anti-Money Laundering), transaction monitoring, or regulatory reporting.

What You Bring

• Expertise in Backend Development: Strong proficiency in OOP best practices, along with experience in at least one other server-side language.
• Database Mastery: You’re a SQL guru, particularly with PostgreSQL, handling query optimization, data migrations, and database modeling.
• Solid Grasp of OOP and Design Patterns: Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles and design patterns.
• Scalability Focus: Experience in designing systems that manage rapid growth and high demand.
• High-Volume Performance: Optimized systems for concurrency, idempotency, and large transaction volumes.
• API Development: Skilled in input validation, JWT, and scaling APIs using queue-based systems.
• Experience: 4+ years as a backend or full-stack engineer.

You’re a Great Fit If You

• Thrive in designing, coding, testing, and maintaining high-quality applications.
• Excel in remote, async collaboration and distributed teams.
• Take ownership while collaborating toward shared success.
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Approach problems with optimism and user-centric thinking.
• Deliver business value through product-focused development.
• Embody Deel’s core value of Genuine Care.

Bonus Points

• Experience with SaaS products running 24/7 on major cloud vendors.
• Familiarity with serverless architecture on AWS.
• Understanding of fintech industry challenges and constraints.
• Experience in treasury, FX, reconciliation, or accounting software.
• Built or integrated payment gateways, exchanges, or ledgers.
• Exposure to compliance and audit-focused systems like SOC2, SOX.

Total Rewards

Our workforce deserves fair and competitive pay that meets them where they are. With scalable benefits, rewards, and perks, our total rewards programs reflect our commitment to inclusivity and access for all.

What You’ll Enjoy

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

At Deel, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Unless otherwise agreed, we will communicate with job applicants using Deel-specific emails, which include @deel.com and other acquired company emails like @payspace.com and @paygroup.com. You can view the most up-to-date job listings at Deel by visiting our careers page.

Deel is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects different abilities, backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, identities and perspectives.

Deel will provide accommodations on request throughout the recruitment, selection and assessment process for applicants with disabilities. If you require accommodations, please inform our Talent Acquisition Team via this link and a team member will be in touch to ensure your equal participation. If you have difficulty accessing the form, please email at recruiting@deel.com.

As part of our hiring process, we primarily rely on interviews and role-related assessments. In limited cases, we may also consider informal background information relevant to the role, in line with our privacy and fairness obligations.

This application process does utilise Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT) and AI systems to assist in evaluating candidates based on experience level, technical skills and qualifications. As a fully remote company, we also utilise AI-powered deepfake and fraud detection technologies to verify the authenticity of candidate identities and interactions during assessments and interviews. This processing is conducted in compliance with applicable Data Protection, AI Governance and Labour Laws. We ensure human oversight is maintained in all final hiring decisions. Your personal data is not used to train AI models. For more information on how we process your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

For NYC Residents: In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, an independent bias audit has been conducted on AEDT; results are available at Ashby, Covey.

Key skills/competency

• Fintech
• Back-End Development
• SQL
• PostgreSQL
• OOP
• API Development
• Scalability
• High-Volume Performance
• Compliance-Sensitive Environments
• Remote Collaboration