Senior Backend Engineer, Risk Systems

About Slope

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Slope builds AI-native credit infrastructure for B2B commerce. We help growing businesses access capital and help credit teams make faster, better, more automated decisions.

At the core of Slope is underwriting: understanding messy business data, turning it into risk signals, applying policy, and making decisions that are fast, accurate, explainable and auditable.

We are looking for a senior backend engineer to own the systems that make that possible.

The role

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You will work on the backend and data systems that sit between Engineering, and Data Science.

You should be excited by messy, important problems. Your job is to turn ambiguous risk and underwriting workflows and improvements into reliable production systems, whether it's decisioning services, new models, data contracts, credit review tools, policy execution, monitoring, audit trails, and human-in-the-loop workflows.

What you’ll do

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• Build and own production systems for underwriting, bank-data review, policy execution, credit review workflows, portfolio monitoring, and risk operations.
• Translate risk models, underwriting policies, and data science requirements into reliable backend services with clear interfaces, tests, observability, rollback paths, and ownership.
• Create reusable infrastructure for evidence gathering, decisioning, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Partner closely with Risk and Data Science to define clean contracts between research/prototype code and production backend systems.
• Build internal tools that help the credit risk team review data, understand decisions, handle exceptions, and move faster without sacrificing correctness.
• Clearly communicate technical assumptions, tradeoffs, failure modes, system boundaries, and migration plans.
• Own ambiguous projects end-to-end: define the problem, propose a path, align across teams, ship production slices, measure, and iterate.
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