Helix AI Engineer, Backend

Job summary

Responsibilities

We're looking for a backend engineer to build the services and infrastructure behind Figure's consumer mobile application, including auth, payments, and tooling.

• Design and build the core auth and identity service, including KYC integration.
• Build payments and billing infrastructure: payouts, transactions, disputes, and reconciliation.
• Own the media ingestion and delivery pipeline for high-volume data ingestion.
• Own the cloud platform: environments, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and cost.
• Ship the notification system across push, SMS, and email.

What they're looking for

• 5+ years building production backend systems at scale.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals: APIs, queues, storage, and event-driven architecture.
• Hands-on experience with payments, billing, or fintech infrastructure.
• Hands-on infrastructure experience: AWS or GCP, Terraform or similar, containers, and CI/CD.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar.

Tech stack

• AWS
• GCP
• Terraform
• Go
• Python