Backbase
The Principal System Engineer role drives engineering excellence and strategic technical direction within a highly regulated banking environment. This position focuses on platform reliability, system resilience, and mentoring engineering teams while ensuring compliance, security, and performance standards. The role balances hands-on technical problem-solving with proactive architectural innovation to maintain distributed systems.
Headquarters
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Company Size
1001-5000 employees
Founded
2003
Backbase is an AI-native Banking Operating System (Banking OS) that unifies customers, employees, and AI agents across digital channels, front-office, and banking operations on a single platform. Trusted by 120+ banks worldwide, its Unified Frontline coordinates the full scope of customer engagement — including onboarding, servicing, payments, and lending operations — with shared context and explicit authorization for every action. Through its acquisition of Kasisto and a layered architecture spanning orchestration, intelligence, and connectivity, Backbase enables financial institutions across retail, commercial, private, and wealth management banking to automate operations and modernize customer experiences.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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51% above the average for this role
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