Backend Engineer

About Coverflex

Coverflex exists to make compensation work for everyone. We turn compensation into choice - one platform, one card, one app - for benefits, meal allowance, insurance and more. Our platform is simple for HR and meaningful for employees.

Role: Backend Engineer

Your Impact

• Craft reliable, scalable systems powering Coverflex's compensation platform.
• Design APIs, optimize databases, and make architectural decisions impacting employee benefits.
• Work embedded within a focused product team with clear ownership.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers from discovery through delivery.
• Own meaningful problems end-to-end and ship features simplifying compensation.

Success Metrics

• Ship features impacting key team metrics like transaction processing and operational friction.
• Build reliable infrastructure with monitoring and graceful degradation.
• Improve system quality through optimizations, error handling, and data consistency.
• Implement testing coverage, observability, documentation, and patterns for velocity.
• Lead features end-to-end with minimal oversight and sound architectural decisions.
• Elevate the team via code reviews, knowledge sharing, and engineering standards.
• Collaborate effectively with product to ensure building the right solutions.

Challenges

• Ship features quickly while maintaining system stability and reliability.
• Coordinate across multiple systems and teams handling payments, benefits, insurance, and compliance.
• Build flexible systems accommodating different country regulations and compliance requirements.

Requirements

Must-haves

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals.
• Production-ready mindset including testing, observability, and monitoring.
• Experience shipping in small PRs with CI/CD.
• Product thinking focused on user outcomes.
• Collaborative and easy to work with, valuing team practices and feedback.

Nice-to-have

• Professional experience with Elixir/Phoenix.
• Multi-market B2B SaaS experience.
• Fintech or regulated industry background.
• AI-assisted development habits and prompt-level fluency.

Team

• Manager: Daniel Francisco, Engineering Manager (Portugal)
• Team includes engineers, product manager, product designer.
• Key stakeholders: VP Engineering, Chief Architect, Head of Product, Head of Product Design, Co-Founder & CTO.

Benefits

• Equity: VSOPs

Additional Information

• Languages: English (main), Portuguese, Spanish or Italian a plus.
• Contract Type: Permanent.
• Location: Remote (Europe only).
• Salary: 50K to 80K gross annually.
• No cover letter required; apply with LinkedIn or CV.
• Hiring process includes multiple interview stages and feedback.
• Equal opportunity employer welcoming diverse candidates.