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Melio

Senior Backend Engineer

Melio is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer in Tel Aviv, Israel. Level rates it ; you can apply on Melio.

Level's read on this job

  • On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
  • The posting mentions TypeScript, Node.js and AWS among its tools and skills.
  • Level classes it as a senior role.
  • Melio has 23 other open roles on Level.

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Senior Backend Engineer building and scaling serverless payment processing infrastructure using AWS and TypeScript.

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We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team.

Qualifications:

  • Tech Enthusiasts - more important than experience is to have the passion to learn and get out of the comfort zone
  • +7 years of professional experience as a software engineer in software engineering, architecture, and design
  • Experience with micro-services architecture and running cloud-based production environments
  • Team player who prefers collaboration over working solo

Bonus points:

  • Independent, fast learner, and excited about learning new technologies.
  • Looking to improve a strong and open culture

A day in the life and how you’ll make an impact:

  • Each member of our team is an all-around player who influences the product from the overall experience to the development. 
  • You’ll be using top technologies like Typescript, Node.js, AWS and scalable databases to build a unique experience in the world of B2B payments.
  • You should be passionate about engineering and building a product end-to-end, through the design, coding, testing, and deployment phases.

About the Engineering department:

The Engineering department is the backbone of Melio. We build, scale, and maintain the technical infrastructure that processes over $100B in annual payments for small businesses nationwide.

Following our acquisition by Xero, we're tackling an even more exciting challenge: integrating Melio's payment platform with Xero's accounting software to create a unified financial ecosystem. This means building robust, scalable systems that seamlessly connect two powerful platforms while maintaining the security and reliability that financial services demand.

Our Stack:

We're all-in on AWS Serverless—meaning fully managed infrastructure that lets us build and scale faster than ever. We use TypeScript and Python for consistency, combining relational and document databases, and deploy via SAM CLI built on CloudFormation. Serverless gives us the agility to innovate rapidly while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability.

As part of our engineering team, you'll work on problems that matter: real-time payment processing, fraud prevention, API integrations, data synchronization, and user experience optimization. You'll have the autonomy to make architectural decisions, the support of a world-class team, and the satisfaction of seeing your code impact millions of small businesses.

If you're ready to build systems that scale, solve hard problems, and help small businesses thrive, we want to talk to you.

Read more about our Engineering department on our tech blog.

About Melio:

Melio, a Xero company, is revolutionizing how small businesses handle payments. By combining Melio's best-in-class bill pay platform with Xero's global accounting expertise, we're building the ultimate financial command center for American small businesses. We're the fastest-growing B2B payment solution in the US—but we're still small enough that you can make real, visible impact as we scale to reach millions more businesses.

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How we rate this

Senior Backend Engineer at Melio rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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  1. What's a project where you used TypeScript hands-on?
  2. Walk me through how you've used Node.js in your day-to-day work.
  3. What are the limits of AWS that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
  4. What's a project where you used Python hands-on?
  5. Walk me through how you've used Sam Cli in your day-to-day work.

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