Senior Backend Engineer
Icehouseventures · Auckland, New Zealand ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Backend
- Experience
- 7+ years
Icehouseventures · Auckland, New Zealand ·
Senior Backend Engineer at Emerge, a New Zealand fintech, designing and operating Kotlin/Spring services that move and account for customer money across real-time payments, ledger, reconciliation and core banking, running on AWS and PostgreSQL with strong production ownership.
Emerge is a fast-growing New Zealand fintech reshaping what modern financial services can look like. Built at the intersection of technology, product, engineering and regulated financial services, the business is creating smart, scalable financial products for people, families and businesses.
The business already has strong foundations in place across transactional accounts, payments and expense management, and is now moving into a wider product suite. That growth creates a rare opportunity for an experienced backend engineer to own high-impact services across real-time financial products and platform growth.
As Senior Backend Engineer, you will design, build and operate the services that move and account for customer money. You will work across the real-time transaction path, core banking platform and new product capability, with a strong focus on correctness, resilience and production ownership.
This is a hands-on role for someone who can take complex backend work from ambiguity through to production. You will work closely with product and engineering teams, contribute to architecture and technical reviews, and use AI coding tools thoughtfully while owning every line that ships.
You may also support work connected to Emerge’s broader banking-as-a-service and partner delivery priorities, while remaining part of the New Zealand engineering team.
You are a senior backend engineer with strong technical depth and a high sense of ownership. You think carefully about consistency, failure modes, blast radius and trade-offs. You are practical, delivery-focused and comfortable working through complexity without needing heavy structure. You communicate clearly around risk, progress and technical decisions, and you stay close to what you build after it reaches production.
You may be a senior backend engineer in a fintech, payments, banking, SaaS, product technology or regulated systems environment. You may also come from a strong backend product engineering background where correctness, reliability and production ownership matter deeply.