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# Senior Backend Software Engineer (NYC) at Comun

- **Company:** Comun
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2025-10-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/comun/c3d54a00-1ca7-408e-ad24-b58bde54d48f

## Job description

## About Común

Comun’s mission is to help Hispanic immigrants turn their hard work into upward mobility — starting with financial services that support their transition from a cash-based system to the digital economy.

We offer checking accounts that can be opened using 100+ types of Latin American IDs, access to over 90K locations nationwide to deposit cash, international transfers to 17 countries at market-leading rates, and 24/7 bilingual customer support with <5 min SLA across email, chat, and phone.

We currently process over $1.5B in annual transaction volume and surpassed $100M in annualized international transfers just six months after launch. Comun has raised +$50M from top investors including Redpoint, Costanoa Ventures, and South Park Commons. Our team brings experience from leading fintech companies like Brex, Nubank, and Mercury.

We believe immigrants are the ultimate entrepreneurs — driven by relentless ambition and a vision for a better future for their families. Comun exists to serve them throughout their journey.

Learn more at [comun.app/nosotros](http://comun.app/nosotros) Article [here](https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/28/fast-growing-neobank-comun-raised-21-5m-just-months-after-its-last-raise/)

## About the Role

As a backend engineer, you’ll be responsible for extending our systems to support additional banking features, increases in usage volume, and the needs of our non-technical company functions. You’ll maintain our core offering — a deposit account and debit card powered through our Banking as a Service partner, while designing our architecture to bundle additional financial services into a personalized product experience. We’ve adopted a lightweight microservice infrastructure that allows us to move quickly, but that can flex on robustness to ensure scalability as our engineering team grows.

## What you’ll do

- Collaborate with our product, design, and front end functions to build new financial offerings that advance the company mission.
- Work with back end peers to establish new processes, software patterns, and tools that expedite our development process.
- Maintain a testing and observability stack that keeps our system stable and proactively alerts us of internal or third party users.
- Work with leadership to plan our engineering execution across different time horizons.

You are

- Opinionated on software engineering best practices, at a code and developer productivity level.
- Product-minded and passionate about delivering delightful experiences to customers.
- Experienced building backend systems that grow in complexity over time.
- A critical thinker capable of making tradeoffs in a fast paced environment.
- A great communicator and collaborator, capable of creating and running cross-functional processes.

## Requirements

- 4+ years of experience in software engineering
- 2+ years of experience using Python and Postgres
- Bonus: Experience with GraphQL, DevOps (Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes), and pub/sub models (Kafka)

We value domain experts that are obsessed with their craft and push the quality bar beyond reach. We also like generalists that are self-driven and entrepreneurial, who can make product decisions and own operational processes.

## Team

We are a team of 40 based out of New York, coming from industry-leading companies like Brex, Nubank, Cruise, and Verkada. Over half of us are immigrants, and have experienced the problems we’re solving first hand. We value customer focus, high ambition, principled decision-making, and deep trust.

Full Time Employee Benefits

- Competitive salary and generous equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Gym Pass subscription
- Daily office lunch in NYC Office
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible PTO
- Remote-friendly when traveling
- Company-wide offsites
- 401(k) for US employees
- Visit to our NYC Office for remote team members
- Visa sponsorship if applicable

Común is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

## About Comun

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services (Fintech)
- **Target customers**: B2C – primarily Hispanic immigrants in the United States, including those without a Social Security Number
- **Mission or purpose**: “To empower immigrants and their families to achieve upward mobility” by providing inclusive, affordable financial tools.

## Products & Services
- **Común Checking Account**: A U.S. checking account that can be opened using a passport or government-issued ID (100+ types accepted), with no monthly fees and no minimum balance. Funds are FDIC-insured up to $250,000 through Community Federal Savings Bank.
- **Común Visa Debit Card**: Accepted at 61+ million merchants worldwide, with cash access at thousands of ATMs.
- **International Remittances**: Send money to 17+ countries in Latin America at transparent, low fees. Service provided by Service UniTeller, Inc.
- **Direct Deposit**: Get paid up to two days early, with support for receiving money from any U.S. bank.
- **Bilingual Support**: 24/7 customer service in English and Spanish via WhatsApp, in-app chat, and phone with <5 minute SLA.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$26M** (conflicting reports state $40M – see sources). Annual revenue of **$1.3M** (estimated). Processes **$1.5B+ in annual transaction volume** and surpassed **$100M in annualized international transfers** six months after launch.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Redpoint (led Series A), Costanoa Ventures (led Seed), South Park Commons. Banking partner: Community Federal Savings Bank (FDIC). Visa for debit card.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **20.7% YoY** to 35 employees. Team spans 5 countries (US, Mexico, Italy, Brazil, Algeria). Over **1M+ downloads** and a 4.7–4.8 app rating. 6 active job postings as of mid-2025.

## Competitive Advantages
- **No SSN required** – accepts over 100 types of Latin American IDs, lowering the barrier for undocumented or newly arrived immigrants.
- **Zero hidden fees** – no account opening fees, monthly fees, or minimum balance requirements.
- **Built by immigrants** – founders and many team members have firsthand experience of the challenges their users face, creating deep empathy and trust.
- **Full bilingual experience** – app, support, and marketing are available in both English and Spanish.
- **Fast remittances** – competitive exchange rates and low fees for sending money to Latin America.

## Strategic Focus
- Become the leading financial platform for immigrants in the U.S. by expanding product offerings (e.g., credit, savings, lending) and deepening the ecosystem around money management.
- Scale the team and infrastructure to handle growing transaction volume (already $1.5B+ annually) while maintaining high-touch bilingual support.
- Continue investing in AI-native product operations and engineering to improve user experience and operational efficiency.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: “We’re not just another Fintech company. We’re a tight-knit team of mission-driven people who believe that immigrants deserve more.” Employees report a strong sense of purpose.
- **Diverse, global team**: 40+ people from more than 15 nationalities at the NYC headquarters. Offices in New York (HQ) and Mexico City.
- **Growth opportunities**: As an early-stage company (35 employees), team members have the chance to shape product, roadmap, and company culture. “Your ideas and leadership will shape what’s next.”
- **Engineering culture**: Technical roles include Senior Backend (NYC or CDMX), Senior Mobile (React Native), and a Technical Product Manager. Stack likely includes modern fintech infrastructure.
- **Perks**: No mention of remote/hybrid policy, but NYC HQ suggests in-office presence. Notable perks include the chance to work on a product that directly improves millions of lives, and a supportive environment for learning and career growth.

## Sources
1. [Comun Careers Page](https://www.comun.app/en/careers)
2. [Comun Job Board (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/comun)
3. [Comun Main Website](https://www.comun.app/en)
4. [Comun LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/comun-app)
5. [Comun About Us](https://www.comun.app/en/about-us)

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