The target
Senior Backend Engineer at Northwind Fintech — 5+ years with distributed systems. Must have: payment APIs, observability, PCI compliance. Nice to have: contract testing, incident response experience.
Backend engineer, 6 years on payment and billing services. Strong on reliability — I improved monitoring, added contract tests between services, and ran incident response. Cut production error rates about 40% last year.
Backend engineer with 6 years on payment APIs. I own reliability end-to-end — contract testing, incident response — and the monitoring that cut production errors ~40% last year.