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title: 'Staff Software Engineer, Backend at Imprint'
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# Staff Software Engineer, Backend at Imprint

- **Company:** Imprint
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $200k–$240k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-05-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/imprint/ed168790-f437-4323-aabb-ca804bfd6ab1/application

**Skills:** Go, Java, Python, Distributed Systems, Advanced Design Patterns, AWS, GCP, Azure, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Infrastructure-as-Code, Performance Optimization, Data Structures, Algorithms, Financial Platforms, Event-driven Architectures, Streaming Systems, Data Processing Pipelines, Observability

> Architect and lead the development of secure, reliable, and scalable backend systems for co-branded credit cards. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and drive the evolution of developer experience while partnering with product and design leadership to align technical strategy with business goals.

## Job description

## Who We Are

Imprint helps the world's best brands grow the lifetime value of their customers. We started with co-branded credit cards and rebuilt them to be smarter, more rewarding, and brand-first. We partner with companies like Crate & Barrel, Rakuten, [Booking.com](http://Booking.com), H-E-B, Fetch, and Shell to launch modern credit programs that deepen loyalty, unlock savings, and drive growth. But the card is just the beginning. We combine advanced payments infrastructure, intelligent underwriting, and deep customer data to create delightful and personalized experiences for members as well as efficient and profitable relationships for our brand partners. Our robust technology and world-class operations allow us and our brand partners to offer powerful financial products without becoming a bank.

In the U.S., co-branded cards alone account for over $300 billion in annual spend, and most still run on decades-old legacy bank systems. Imprint is the modern alternative: flexible, embeddable, and built for how people actually pay today. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital, Ribbit, and Khosla Ventures, we're building a world-class team to redefine how people pay and how brands grow. If you want to move fast, solve hard problems, and own real outcomes, we want to meet you.

The backend is core to this expansion: every transaction, every credit decision, and every rewards calculation runs on the financial infrastructure we build. At the Staff level, you'll provide both the technical and cultural leverage that helps the team and the systems scale together.

The Opportunity

- Drive architecture and implementation of critical financial systems: from transaction authorization and ledger accounting, to credit decisioning, to rewards engines and payment processing. You write code, make design decisions, and own outcomes.
- Shape net-new products from ideation through delivery: as Imprint expands into new financial products and a deeper rewards platform, you'll define technical approaches for systems that don't exist yet while evolving the ones that do.
- Define foundational platform direction: set the technical vision for shared services, API infrastructure, and developer tooling that make the entire engineering team faster and more reliable.
- Leverage AI across the stack: from prototyping to testing to production code, learning how to leverage AI tools is a core consideration for how we work.
- Drive alignment across a wide cross-functional surface: product, design, infrastructure, compliance, solutions engineering, and brand partners. You bring engineering perspective into the room where decisions are made.
- Raise the technical and cultural bar: mentor and sponsor engineers across the spectrum of seniority, foster psychological safety, and drive technical rigor in how the team designs, reviews, and ships.

## Your Profile

- 10+ years of experience building production backend systems, operating in the details and driving strong technical outcomes
- You've architected and shipped systems that handle real money, real users, or real-time decisions, and you've made the teams around you better in the process
- You operate fluidly across [staff archetypes](https://staffeng.com/guides/staff-archetypes/) depending on context — tech lead, architect, solver — adapting your approach to what the team and problem need
- You model the culture you want to see: psychological safety, intellectual honesty, and high standards for craft
- You communicate clearly at every level, from pairing on implementation details to presenting technical strategy to leadership
- Proficiency in Go (our primary backend language), or a similar language with willingness to ramp quickly
- Experience ensuring data consistency and transactional integrity across distributed systems
- Strong with relational databases: schema design, migrations, and query performance tuning
- You drive technical alignment across product managers, business stakeholders, and engineers of all levels.
- Experience using AI tools (code assistants, MCP servers, agentic workflows) to accelerate development, or genuine enthusiasm to adopt them
- Startup experience a plus

We don't expect every candidate to match every bullet. If you're excited about what we're building and confident you can contribute, we'd love to talk.

Stack Go, MySQL, DynamoDB, Temporal, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Statsig.

Read more about how we build at Imprint on our engineering blog: https://tech.imprint.co/.

## Perks & Benefits

- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Leading configured work computers of your choice
- Flexible paid time off
- Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
- Additional health coverage includes access to One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA
- 20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
- Access to industry-leading technology across all of our business units, stemming from our philosophy that we should invest in resources for our team that foster innovation, optimization, and productivity

Imprint is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Imprint is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Imprint welcomes talented individuals from all backgrounds who want to build the future of payments and rewards. If you are passionate about FinTech and eager to grow, let’s move the world forward, together.

## About Imprint

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Imprint provides a modern platform for iconic brands to design, launch, and manage co-branded credit cards, deposit accounts, and installment loans.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Daragh Murphy (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Fintech
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprise brands like Shell, Rakuten, Booking.com)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Change the way brands build loyalty" by creating co-branded financial products that are worthy of iconic partner brands and their customers.

## Products & Services
- **Imprint Core**: A full-stack credit card platform handling sign-ups, transactions, rewards redemption, and everything in between. Designed to be tailored to each brand’s identity.
- **Co-branded Credit Cards**: Bespoke credit card programs for partner brands, including rewards, underwriting, and customer engagement.
- **Deposit Accounts & Installment Loans**: Additional financial products offered to partner brands to deepen customer loyalty.
- **Predict, Insights, Marketing, Rewards**: A suite of tools for partner brands, including underwriting analytics, customer insights, marketing automation, and rewards management.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (previously reported as a "billion valuation" by LinkedIn sources).
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$866 million** across 7 rounds, including a **$150 million Series D** (December 2025) led by Khosla Ventures. Annual revenue is estimated at **$35.6 million**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Thrive Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Ribbit Capital, Khosla Ventures, Hedosophia, Stripe, Silicon Valley Bank. Partners include Shell, Rakuten, and Booking.com.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **46.6% YoY** to 181 employees. Recognized by Fast Company as one of the most innovative companies in finance (2025). Secured a $500 million credit facility with Mizuho, Truist, and HSBC.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Modern, purpose-built platform**: Imprint built its own credit card platform from scratch, avoiding legacy tech stacks and enabling faster, more flexible product customization.
- **Speed and reliability**: 3x faster application decisions than the industry average; 75% non-crash rate on mobile; 99.99% backend uptime; 24/7 on-call engineering.
- **SOC 2 Type 2 & PCI DSS Certified**: Demonstrates enterprise-grade security and compliance, crucial for large brand partnerships.
- **Strong brand partnerships**: Already serving iconic, everyday brands (Shell, Rakuten, Booking.com), providing a powerful network effect and credibility.
- **Capital infrastructure**: Multiple credit facilities (Citibank, Mizuho, Truist, HSBC) totaling over $800 million, enabling scalable program growth.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale and modernize the co-branded financial space**: Targeting the massive, slow-to-modernize market of co-branded cards.
- **Deepen brand partnerships**: Expanding product offerings (deposits, loans) and underwriting capabilities (e.g., partnership with Nova Credit for cash flow analytics).
- **International expansion**: Presence in Brazil and Colombia, with a growing global team.
- **Product velocity**: Continuing to build a high-efficiency engineering team to rapidly iterate on the platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as high-performance, ambitious, and collaborative. Values include "Lead with clarity," "Own a high bar," "Grow," and "Be humble together." Emphasis on direct feedback, ownership, and data-driven decision-making.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Offers remote roles, though specific teams may require in-office presence in San Francisco, New York, or Bellevue (WA).
- **Engineering & Technical Excellence**: Strong tech stack (TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Python, Go, etc.). Engineering team is a core part of the business, with a focus on building reliable, scalable financial infrastructure.
- **Growth Trajectory**: High-growth environment with significant funding and a rapidly expanding team. Opportunity to work on complex, high-impact problems in fintech.
- **Compensation & Perks**: Employer rating of 3.4/5 on LinkedIn, with compensation rated 3.8/5 (higher than culture/work-life balance). Attracts talent from top companies (Capital One, Venmo, Amazon, PayPal, Klarna).
- **Team Composition**: 57 technical staff (22% of workforce), with a flat-ish structure (17% specialists, 16% managers, 14% seniors). Active hiring with 33 open roles.

## Sources
1. [imprint.co](https://imprint.co/)
2. [imprint.co/about](https://imprint.co/about)
3. [imprint.co/careers](https://imprint.co/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/imprint-payments](https://www.linkedin.com/company/imprint-payments)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/imprint](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/imprint)

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