Back-End Software Engineer

Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Nashville and several other countries. Since 1988, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing.

Role overview

Arbortower is hiring for the Back-End Software Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Our headquarters is in Nashville, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Qatar, with a local contract and salary paid in local currency. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

What you'll be doing

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.

Pay and benefits

• Annual team retreat.
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end.
• Flexible hours.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Qatar.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Arbortower.