Backend Engineer

About Attain

Built for consumers and companies, alike. In a world driven by data, we believe consumers and businesses can coexist. Our founders had a vision to empower consumers to leverage their greatest asset—their data—in exchange for modern financial services. Built with this vision in mind, our platform allows consumers to access savings tools, earned wages and rewards without cost or hidden fees. In exchange, they give permission to use their real-time data for research, insights and targeted advertising.

At Attain, your contribution will help us build a more equitable and efficient data sharing ecosystem—whether helping consumers access modern financial services or businesses leverage data to achieve better outcomes. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with hands-on leaders and mission-driven individuals everyday.

Our Backend Engineering team builds scalable, reliable systems that power both consumer-facing products and B2B solutions across Attain, ensuring seamless experiences and secure, high-performance integrations.

Attain Office Hybrid Schedule:

• Redwood City, CA: Mondays (in-office) and choice of three days between Tues-Friday


• Chicago, IL: 4 days in-office; 1 day remote

You’ll be a great fit for the role if

• You are excited to build microservices using Rust


• You have a willingness to learn and teach in a collaborative environment


• You’re eager to leverage and develop using AI tools


• You’ve been complimented on how well you participate in an open feedback environment

What your day to day will look like

• Use new and modern technology to build new features and services across our microservice architecture


• Write thoughtful & quality code that is readable, testable, and easily maintainable


• Create data-driven and stable APIs for our mobile apps to consume


• Strive for excellent development practices and careful code architecture that is built around rapid releases


• Work cross-functionally with all mobile and backend engineers, and product teams to consistently release high-quality, customer-focused features


• Adhere to, and improve upon, our agile process through requirement documents, sprint retrospectives, and other regular cadence meetings

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building backend services


• Experience in the financial tech or ad-tech industry is a plus


• Microservice or Service-oriented Architecture


• Experience using gRPC, protobuf, or GraphQL


• Experience with working with relational databases


• Experience with message queues or event streams


• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure

We’re excited to hear from you.

At Attain, we are passionate about finding people to continuously help us grow our organization. We encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t match every detail of the job description. If we don’t see something that immediately fits, we will keep your resume on file for future opportunities.